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THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION 
COUNTRY SCHOOLS 



GENERAL REPORT, DISTRIBUTION, MINIMUM 
REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 



W. F. DOUGHTY 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 



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BULLETIN 54 



JULY 1, 1916 



THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

STATE OF TEXAS 



THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION 
COUNTRY SCHOOLS 



GENERAL REPORT, DISTRIBUTION, MINIMUM 
REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 



W. F. DOUGHTY 

State Superintendent of Public Instruction 




BULLETIN 54 



JULY 1, 1916 



THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

STATE OF TEXAS 



AUSTIN, TEXAS 

VON BOECKMANN-JONES CO., PRINTERS 
1016 , 



A241-616-2m 







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DIRECTORY OF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS 



THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
W. F. Doughty, State Superintendent of Public Instruction 



R. B. BlNNION, 

First Assistant Superintendent 

S. H. Whitley, 

Assistant Superintendent 

Julius F. McDonald, 

Supervisor of Public 
High Schools 

L. V. Stockard, 

Supervisor of Public 
High Schools 

E. G. Grafton, 

Division of Rural Schools 

L. T. Cunningham, 

Rural School Supervisor 

L. L. PuGH* 

Rural School Supervisor 



N. J. Clancy, 

Statistician 

Gkover Lewis, 

Auditor 

J. M. Bledsoe, 

Certificate Clerk 

George J. Stephens, 

Mail and Supplies 

Grady Barrett, 

Stenographer 

W. L. Frame, 

Stenographer 

Dan Hightower, Jr., 

Stenographer 



STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS 

C. A. Jay, Chairman 

W. S. Brandenberger, Secretary 

Walker King, College Examiner 

L. Z. Timmons 

L. E. Dudley 

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 

James E. Ferguson, Governor, Chairman 

John G. McKay, Secretary of State 

H. B. Terrell, Comptroller 

W. F. Doughty, State Superintendent and Secretary 

STATE TEXT-BOOK REVISION COMMITTEE 

F. M. Bralley, President College of Industrial Arts 

R. E. Vinson, President University of Texas 

W. F. Doughty, State Superintendent of Public Instruction 



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AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE 
College Station, Texas 
W. B. Bizzell, President Chas. E. Feiley, Registrar 

COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS 
Denton, Texas 
F. M. Bkalley, President C. M. Pkoctoe, Registrar 

NORTH TEXAS STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 
Denton, Texas 
W. H. Beuce, President A. C. McGinnis, Registrar 

SAM HOUSTON NORMAL INSTITUTE 
Huntsville, Texas 
H. F. Estill, President L. E. King, Secretary and Registrar 

SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

San Marcos, Texas 

C. E. Evans, President S. M. Sewell, Registrar and Secretary 

STATE JUVENILE TRAINING SCHOOL 
Gatesville, Texas 
Chaeles E. King, Superintendent John E. McDonald, Accountant 

STATE ORPHANS' HOME 
Corsicana, Texas 
W. F. Baenett, Superintendent. Aaeon Feeguson, Secretary 

STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND 

Austin, Texas 

E. E. Bbamlette, Superintendent and Secretary 

TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF 
Austin, Texas 
Gtjs F. Uebantke, Superintendent T. V. Aeciiee, Registrar 

TEXAS STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 

Gainesville, Texas 

De. Caeeie Weaves Smith, Superintendent 

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 
Austin, Texas 
De. R. E. Vinson, President E. J. Mathews, Registrar 

WEST TEXAS 'STATE NORMAL COLLEGE 
Canyon, Texas 
R. B. Cousins, President Tea vis Shaw, Secretary-Treasurer 

PRAIRIE VIEW STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE 

(For Colored Youth) 
Prairie View, Texas , 
I. M. Teeeell. President 



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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

General Report 7 

Distribution of State Aid 12 

The Appropriation for Country Schools 30 

Minimum Requirements 35 

How to Meet the Minimum Requirements . , 37 

Graded List of Library Books 46 

List of Approved Heaters . . . 66 

Extracts from Letters of County Superintendents 68 






THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION FOR 
COUNTRY SCHOOLS 



GENERAL REPORT 



THE OCCASION" 

For several years there has been a growing and general conviction 
amcng the citizens of Texas that the economic growth of the State bears 
a direct ratio to its educational progress, and that the schools have been 
falling behind in their fundamental purpose of preparing all its citi- 
zens to meet successfully the economic demands of the times. The in- 
crease in general interest in public education during the past ten years, 
especially, has been marvelous, and the substantial progress in all phases 
of educational endeavor has been phenomenal. While the advancement 
being made is very encouraging, the ideal to be attained has not yet 
been reached, and will not be attained until the public school is so 
developed, organized, and administered that it shall be able to train all 
the people's children for effective living. 

In this forward movement for more efficient schools, the urban com- 
munities seem to have enjoyed more general and rapid progress than 
have the rural districts. This fact is true, perhaps, largely because a 
greater percentage of the citizens of the towns and cities began earlier 
to recognize the public school as an economic necessity; while many 
people in the rural communities were slow to discard the erroneous 
notion that an education is necessary only for those who expect to live 
without work. However, it is pleasing to note that all over the land 
the people are beginning to accept the principle that the proper edu- 
cation of all classes is the best means of promoting the prosperity of 
the State. 

There seems to be a unanimity of opinion that something should be 
done to improve educational conditions, and that legislative action is 
necessary in dealing with some phases of this question. Observant stu- 
dents of education have differed as to some policies of solution sug- 
gested for improvement, but that one of the most urgent needs in 
encouraging and developing an efficient system of public schools is in- 
creased financial support seems to be generally accepted. 

To make more efficient the public educational system has been one 
of the most important tasks of every legislature, and during the past 
decade the largest phase of the educational problem has been the im- 
provement of the schools of the country districts, because it is iu these 
districts where 70 per cent of the scholastic population reside and 95 
per cent of this number depend upon the country schools for all the 
scholastic training they will ever receive: and, further, because of the 






established fact that the rural schools are falling sadly behind the town 
and city schools in efficient development. 

When the Thirty-fourth Legislature convened, the question of pro- 
viding better country schools presented itself again as usual, with in- 
creased emphasis. There soon became evident a consensus of opinion 
among the members that one of the essential needs to encourage and 
provide better country schools was more money which could be wisely 
expended for the support of such schools, and after days of patient 
deliberation and timely discussion, the Legislature, in line with a rec- 
ommendation of the Governor, manifested its deep concern and expressed 
its appreciation for the more than nine hundred thousand children of 
the rural districts by enacting a statute appropriating one million dol- 
lars for the improvement of country schools in the State, which Act is 
popularly known as the million dollar appropriation for country schools. 

THE PURPOSE OE THE APPROPRIATION 

For the purpose of promoting the country school interests of the State 
and of aiding the people in providing adequate school facilities for the 
education of their children, five hundred thousand dollars was appro- 
priated out of the general revenue for the scholastic year ending August 
31, 1916, and an additional five hundred thousand dollars for a similar 
purpose for the scholastic year ending August 31. 1917, to be used in 
supplementing the regular State and county school apportionment in 
accordance with the law in maintaining country schools. 

It was obviously the intention of the Legislature to assist the weaker 
country school districts which were not able to maintain efficient schools 
upon their own resources, and to stimulate the citizens of the rural 
communities everywhere to manifest a more active concern and provide 
more adequate support for their local schools, wherever they were not 
doino- so. The law provides certain reasonable standards and require- 
ments with reference to school buildings and grounds, equipment, teach- 
ers, attendance of pupils, and local school tax to be complied with by 
schools receiving State aid. 



STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS 

Tn order to be eligible to receive State aid a school must not have a 
scholastic nopulation of more than two hundred, and must not be located 
in a town or citv of more than one thousand according to the latest 
Federal census, and must comply with the following standards and re- 
quirements: Location.— The school must have a site of not less than 
one acre (five acres preferred) in extent, suitably laid out, properlv 
drained, and supplied with pure water: School House.— A suitable 
school house erected in accordance with the State school house building 
law or substantially meeting the requirements thereof: Equipment.— 
Each school shall be provided with necessary desks, seats, and black- 
board, and with adequate library, maps, charts, and globes, such as the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction feels that such school is 
able to purchase: Teasers.— Teachers employed in such schools shall 






furnish satisfactory evidence to the State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction of professional training and successful experience and shall 
be required to render service of high grade; Attendance. — In order to 
receive State aid a school must have maintained an average attendance 
of at least 50 per cent of the scholastic enrollment for the previous year, 
and 75 per cent during the year that aid is granted; Local Tax. — The 
school district must he levying and collecting a local school tax of not 
less than 50 cents on the $100 valuation of taxable property, provided, 
that for the year 1915-16 a district which has voted the tax whether 
collecting it for that year or not, shall be eligible to receive not more 
than $500 in any one year; and provided, further, that in extreme cases 
and in cases of emergency, a district may receive, for one .time only, 
an amount not to exceed $200 whether any tax has been levied or not, 
and aid may be continued provided the district levy and collect the re- 
quired tax. 

DISTRIBUTION 

According to the law the appropriation shall be granted by the State 
Board of Education on the recommendation of the State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction. No aid shall be granted to any school until it 
has been inspected by the State Superintendent or his duly appointed 
representative, and a careful investigation conducted as to the needs 
and possibilities of the school. 

The law provides for the appointment of two rural school super- 
visors by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to assist him 
in the administration of the law, and to advise trustees and other school 
officials, and to assist them in meeting the standards and requirements 
to make their schools eligible to receive State aid. In compliance with 
this provision of the law the State Superintendent named for these 
positions two county school superintendents who have to their credit 
successful experience in dealing with rural school problems. The super- 
visors visited practically every section of the State early ' in the year 
and delivered addresses before county teachers' institutes, trustees' con- 
ventions, and other educational gatherings, explaining the law and its 
purposes, encouraging the people of the rural communities to improve 
their schools, and assisting trustees in bringing their schools up to the 
standards and requirements for State aid. 

In conformity with the law proper forms and blanks were prepared 
and distributed by the State Department of Education to supply trustees 
who desired to apply for State aid for their schools. A vigorous cam- 
paign has been conducted during the vear by the rural school super- 
visors in behalf of better country schools, and information coming to 
the Department from all parts of the State is very encouraging and 
clearly indicates that there is being manifested a greater interest in 
rural schools in Texas now than ever before in the history of the State. 

The rural school supervisors have been very active in the perform- 
ance of their duties as the following information will indicate: They 
have traveled a distance of 22,381 miles by railroad, 16,017 miles by 
other conveyance, have delivered two hundred public addresses pertain- 



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ing to rural school improvement, speaking to approximately thirty 
thousand people. Applications for State aid for country schools have 
been received from more than fourteen hundred schools. Each appli- 
cation has been given careful individual consideration by the State 
Department of Education and recommendations were not made to the 
State Board of Education until careful investigation of the needs and 
possibilities of the school were made in person by a representative of 
the State Department of Education. 

State aid has been granted to 1225 country schools, located in one 
hundred and seventy-three different counties distributed over every 
section of the State. The average amount of aid extended is more 
than $350 per school, and the average amount per county is approxi- 
mately $2900. It would not be inappropriate to state, at this juncture, 
that the distribution of this large special appropriation among the 
country schools during the current scholastic year has been a stupen- 
dous and arduous undertaking, although a real labor of love, when the 
splendid results accruing and to accrue therefrom are taken into account. 

RESULTS 

As a direct tangible and immediate result of this appropriation, 1225 
country schools have been enabled to meet the standards and require- 
ments as indicated above, thus providing the children of these com- 
munities with first class school accommodations. 

Under the potent influence and effective stimulation of State aid 
the citizens of many rural districts have been induced to increase the 
local financial support, and to recognize the important need for efficient 
teachers, wholesome surroundings, and adequate equipment for their 
schools. 

The enthusiastic interest over the State already manifested as a 
result of the distribution of the first half of the million dollars appro- 
priated for country schools clearly evidences a brighter day and a 
better opportunity for the children of the country districts. 

It is very pleasing to note the very favorable sentiment in favor of 
State aid for country schools among the people of the cities, towns, 
and other school districts not eligible to receive State aid. All the 
people everywhere are coming to the conviction that efficient country 
schools are essential to the proper prosperity of the State, and that it 
is no discrimination for the State to make special appropriations for 
the improvement of the weaker schools. One excellent effect of this 
appropriation for country schools out of the general revenue has been 
the emphasizing of the doctrine that neither county lines nor district 
boundaries should be allowed to limit or restrict the opportunity of 
children for the freest and fullest development for which they are 
capacitated. 

FUTURE PLANS 

The State Department of Education has its forces well organized 
with reference to aid for country schools. The law and its purposes 










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seem to be fully understood and appreciated by the people. They have 
come to believe that the State is in real earnest in dealing with its 
rural schools with a. view to making them efficient and adequate for the 
proper training of the children who attend them. The results thus 
far fully demonstrate the wisdom of this appropriation as a proper 
means of encouraging and providing better country schools. 

The great twentieth century problem is distinctively an educational 
one, and the twentieth century rural school must be properly organized, 
as an efficient unit in the economic plan for rural betterment so that 
its effect shall be emphatically expressed in terms of better prepared 
and happier citizens in the country with an education which they can 
"hitch up with life." Texas children mean everything to Texas, and 
while the appropriation of one million dollars seems great as a begin- 
ning, the appropriations of the future for so worthy a purpose should 
be limited only by the needs of the schools. Texans have never faced 
so immense a task or enjoyed so splendid an opportunity to perform a 
lasting service as the one now presenting itself to them. The State 
Department of Education has a broad vision and large plans for this 
particular work, and with the loyal support and active co-operation on 
the part of the people, it hopes to continue to conduct a vigorous cam- 
paign for better schools which will effectively reach every nook and 
corner of the State. 



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DISTRIBUTION OF STATE AID 



Statistical table showing school districts, arranged by counties alpha- 
betically, to which State aid was granted out of the million dollar ap- 
propriation for country schools during the scholastic year 1915-16. 



County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 
No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 




Mrs. Lula Sadler 

J. W. Dunn, Jr 

*Roy Jackson 
*J. S. Melugin 

*H. L. Mobley 

L. H. Barron 

T. N. Powell 

*Bert King 

Jas. A. Risenhoover. 


40 

45 

12 

38 

37 

35 

27 

27| 

31 

26 

46 

41 

44 

25 
27 
19 
51 
15 
32 
12 
23 

2 

4 
25 
28 

1 

3 
5 

21 
39 

4 
8 
9 
14 
20 
25 
26 

104 
66 
45 
40 

115 
42 
18 
90 
93 




$500 




Hickory Grove.. 
Sand Flat 

Day 

Chambers 

Friendship 
Blackfoot 

Springfield 

Shalds 

Ward.. 


500 
400 
400 
450 
300 
500 
500 
400 
350 






500 




Salmon 


475 
450 


Angelina 

Aransas 

Archer 


Brushy Creek 

Neches 

Denson Springs 

Liberty 

Clawson 

Rocky Hill 

Fuller Springs ...... 

Homer 

Dunn 

Manning 

Biloxi 

Sparks Colony 

Dundee 


500 
450 
450 

500 
400 
200 
250 
400 
400 
200 
100 

250 

500 
250 






375 






500 


Armstrong 

Austin 

Bastrop 

Baylor.. 

Bee 


Fairview 

Lake View ... 
Goodnight.... 

Industry 

New Ulm 

Alum Creek 

High Grove 

Bomarton.... 

Mineral.. 


300 
500 
300 

500 
500 

500 
500 

500 

450 
300 






200 






450 






200 




Tuleta... 


500 






250 


Bell 




500 






Pendleton.... 


500 
200 






475 




Armstrong 

Moffat 


500 
450 






500 






350 






200 
500 






500 






500 




Willow Grove.. 


450 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 




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County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



District 

No. 



Name of District. 



Amount. 



Bexar.. 



P. F. Stewart. 



Bosque. 



A. D. Roach.. 



Bowie.. 



J. B. Lytal. 



Brazoria R. R. Sebring 



Brazos. 

Briscoe 
Brown. 



Burleson.. 
Burnet 

Caldwell.. 
Callahan. 



Cameron. 



Camp. 



Carson *A. A. Callaghan.. 

Cass R. H. Harvey. 



E. R. Williams.. 



*C. B. Shrewsbury. 
Mrs. E. L. Walker.. 



Thos. A. Schoppe... 
*J. R. Smith 

J. N. Gambrell, Jr.. 
S. Ernest Settle 



J. J. Callaway. 



H. Y. Black. 



36 
41 
38 
35 

13 
3 

58 



18 
19 

1 

37 
2 
4 



9 

2 

10 

11 

48 
23 
12 
41 

6 
54 
14 
25 
65 

1 
27 
40 
44 



25 
13 

7 
21 
33 

32 
37 
17 
14 
15 
33 
38 
47 
45 



17 

18 

9 

10 



10 
6 



19 

24 

14 

1 

12 
47 



Pasitos 

Edgewood 

Thelma 

Carmen.. 



Kopperl 

Mosheim 

Center Grove. 
Iredell 



Hooks 

Wooten Springs. 



Pearland 

North Corner 

Manvel 

Alvin Heights.. 
Sweeny 



Reliance.. 
Welborn. 
Kurten... 

Haylake.. 



Barber 

Mt. View 

Jordon Springs.. 

Dulin 

Grosvenor 

Union Grove 

Antioch 

Delaware 

Beaird 

Crosscut 

Jones Chapel 

Center Point 

Indian Creek 

Winchell 

Brookesmith 

Zephyr 



Moravia.. 
Lyons 



Bachelor Peak. 

Rockvale 

Lake Victor 



Seawillow.. 

Dale 

Delhi 

McNeal 

Hall 

Gardner 

Dudley 

Enterprise. 

Union 

Putnam 



Wilson 

Lyford 

Rio Hondo. 



Sheppard 

Lillie 

Cross Roads. 

Pine 

Leesburg 

Newsome 



Groom . . 

Cuyler.. 

Conway.. 



Huffines 

Turkey Creek.. 

Bear Creek 

Cloninger 

Herring.. 

Elmore 

Bloomberg 



500 
200 
500 

500 
500 
300 
500 

500 

250 

500 
200 
400 
500 
500 

500 
500 
500 

200 

250 
300 
500 
350 
500 
400 
300 
300 
375 
500 
450 
500 
300 
500 
400 
500 

300 
500 

200 
500 
500 

500 
500 
500 
500 
400 
350 
400 
400 
250 
500 

500 
250 
200 

500 
500 
500 
350 
500 
500 

400 
200 
300 

350 

500 
500 
400 
350 
400 
450 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 



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County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 
No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 


Chambers ... 


*R. J. McMurrey 

Ed Singletary 

*F. W. Freeman 

J. R. Carter 

*I. D. Durham 

J. C. Griffin 

W. E. Foster 


9 

1 

17 

19 

3 

2 

21 

18 

7 

4 

20 

14 

73 
71 
60 
59 
53 
51 
49 
42 
25 
16 
8 
7 

13 

1 

11 

4 

30 
58 
9 
65 
73 
75 
42 
36 
46 

18 
20 
2 
1 
8 
25 
5 

1 
69 
58 
52 
35 
67 
64 

6 
62 

8 
11 
66 

123 

37 

12 

128 

124 

116 

115 

68 

38 

15 

10 

8 

3 


Eminence 

Wallisville.. 


$400 
200 






200 






500 




Anahuac .. 

Hankamer.... 

Morgan 

Harmon 

Smith Point 


500 
400 
200 
500 
200 






200 






200 






200 


Cherokee.. 


Gallatin.. 


400 
500 






250 






500 






500 






400 






500 






500 




Iron Hill 


400 


Childress 


Salem.... 

Wells 

Forest 

Mt. Selman 

Dialville 


350 
500 
500 
400 
500 

500 




Union Flat 


485 




High Point 


250 


Clay 


Prairie Hill 

Kirkland 

Tell 


300 
500 
500 

500 




Vashti 

Buffalo Springs 

Kempner 

Dale.. 

Cross Roads 


500 
500 
500 
500 
300 
300 






500 






500 


Coke 

Coleman 


Tennyson 

Robert Lee 

Ft. Chadbourne.... 

Powell 

Edith 

Walnut 

Sanco 

Buffalo 

Bee Branch 

Novice 

Valera 

Gouldbusk 


500 
500 
500 
250 
500 
200 
500 

500 
350 
500 
400 
400 
500 






400 






400 


* 


Folk 


500 






400 






400 






250 




Talpa 


500 
500 




Burkett.. 


400 






500 






350 






200 






500 






300 




Kelly ... 


300 






300 






250 






250 






500 




Morris 

Pike.. 


200 
500 




Valdosta .. 


350 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 



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County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



Collin — Continued 



Collingsworth.. 



Colorado... 
Comanche. 



C. K. Quin 

W. D. Jenkins. 



*A. C. Nicholson. 



Concho. 



Cooke.. 



Coryell. 



Cottle *W. O. Jones 



*Jas. E. Howze. 



E. N. Blackburn. 



J. C. McKelvy.. 



Crosby.. 



Dallam. 



*P. L. Parrish. 



*T. S. Mills.. 



District 

• No. 



55 
62 



17 

2 

40 

14 

19 

6 

5 

4 

45 



9 
26 
34 
62 
65 
10 
12 
40 
43 
55 

6 
21 
31 
36 
53 
50 
77 
49 
57 
68 
18 



11 

25 



25 
33 



18 
106 
74 
1 
41 
15 
77 



10 
22 
19 
11 
20 
12 

5 
6 



Empire 

Warden. 

Prosper 

Copeville. .. 
Blue Ridge.. 
Lavon 

Plymouth.... 

Aberdeen 

Nicholson .... 

Quail.... 

Una 

Lutie 

Fresno 

Dozier 



Name of District. 



Amount. 



Bayne 

Rock Island. 



Soda Springs 

Hazel Dell 

Ebenezer 

Cotton Grove 

Lamkin 

Oak Grove 

Briar Grove 

Democrat 

Energy 

Elm Grove 

Sabana 

Buffalo 

Cathey 

Baggett 

Trinity 

Graham's Chapel.. 

Liberty 

Suez 

Live Oak Grove.. 

Mt. View 

Macksville 

Pounds 

Downing 

Beattie 

Hasse 

Theney 

Bibb 



Paint Rock 

Concho 

Millersview.. 
Hoskins 



Whaley. 

Burns 

Era 



Amity 

Ireland 

Boyd Cove... 
Turnersville. 

Davidson 

Pan Cake 

Levita 

Jonesboro 

Evant 



Plain view 

Chalk 

Lone Star 

Moore 

University 

Common School. 



Cone 

Fairview. 
Farmer.... 



Texline.. 



$250 
350 
500 
300 
450 
400 

350 

500 
275 
500 
450 
400 
250 
375 

350 

500 

500 
300 
350 
500 
500 
300 
350 
300 
400 
400 
325 
350 
300 
400 
400 
350 
400 
350 
300 
300 
200 
200 
500 
500 
500 
500 
350 

500 
400 
500 
200 

500 
300 
500 

500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
325 
500 
500 

500 
300 
300 
500 
350 
200 

350' 
500 
200 

500* 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 



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County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 
No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 


Dallas 


Thos. E. Henry 


66 


Bonnie View.. 


$200 






87 


Florence Hill 


300 






38 


Wheatland 


500 






30 


Kleberg 


400 






9 


Vickery... 


250 






1 


Pleasant Valley 


200 






18 


New Hope 


300 






67 




500 






80 


Hackberry 


400 






26 


Balch Springs.. 
Trinity Heights.... 


500 
450 
500 








Richardson ...... 

Lisbon.. 

Cockerell Hill 

Carrollton 


500 
500 
500 
500 


Dawson 


*Geo. Foster 


11 


Fairview 


400 






9 


Lon 


400 






22 


McCarty 


400 






15 


Key 


400 


Delta 


W. E. Chancellor 


6 


Doctor's Creek 


300 






25 


Yowell 


500 






43 


Mt. Joy . 


500 






22 


Blue Prairie 


350 






3 




400 






39 




400 






27 


Eureka 


400 






20 


Perkins 


400 






15 


Lake Creek 


500 






23 


Brushy Mound ... 

Enloe 

Ben Franklin 


400 
500 
500 


Denton 


L. H. Edwards.. 


59 


Roanoke 


500 






10 


Bolivar 


500 






44 


Corinth... 


400 






53 


Garza 


500 






63 


Bethel 


500 






70 


Donald 


400 






66 


Hebron 


400 






47 


Little Elm .... 


500 






77 


Liberty 


500 






92 


Light's Chapel.. 


200 






62 


Chinn Chapel . 


500 






26 


Cooper Creek 


500 






32 


May 


350 






16 


Mustang ... 


350 






50 


Hackberry 


200 






81 


Midway 


300 






30 


Salt Branch 


200 






28 


Elm Ridge 


500 






18 


Spring Hill 


500 






31 


Lloyd.. 
Aubrey 


500 
500 






1 




500 






6 


Cottonwood 


500 


Donley 


*J. C. Killough 


2 


Lelia Lake 


350 






4 
6 




300 




Jackson Valley.. 


300 


Eastland 


R. E. Sikes 


11 


Rogers 


500 






43 


Pleasant Hill 


400 






42 


Romney 


450 






17 


Long Branch 


350 






41 


Desdemona.... 


500 






47 


Cook 


400 






37 


Sabanno 


500 






34 


Dothan 


500 






30 


Qkra 


500 






45 


George Hill.. 


250 






27 


Grandview 


500 






2A 


Lone Cedar 


400 






53 


Mangum.. 


350 






31 


Union Hill 


400 






19 


Pioneer 

Scranton.... 
Nimrod . 


500 
500 
400 



*Has exoflficio county superintendent. 



••' * ■ 




—17— 



County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 
No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 


Ellis 


W. S. Ely 


22 
49 
5 
50 
21 
103 
73 
69 
23 
54 
36 
82 
81 

96 
80 
61 
52 
42 
10 

6 

9 
21 
76 

87 - 
26 
51 
78 

20 
46 
47 
31 
24 

108 
107 
105 
104 
103 
102 

96 

95 

87 

65 

17 
5 

22 

13 

61 
119 

71 

. 16 

112 

101 

63 
139 

51 

55 

10 
136 

15 

42 

57 

92 
3 

11 

43 

58 
118 

31 

72 


Mt. Peak 


500 




W. T. Graves 

G. A. Pringle 

R. M. Parker 




500 




Wyatt 


500 




Nash 


500 




Newton Branch 


200 






500 






500 






450 






200 




Bethel 


200 




Ozro 


200 




Dalton 


500 






500 


Erath 




500 
250 






400 




Howell Springs 


300 






500 






250 




Salem 


300 




Millerville 


275 






500 






450 






400 






375 






400 




Patillo 


350 




School Hill 


325 




Morgan's Mill 


500 






500 






500 






500 




Clairette 


500 




Bluff dale 


500 




Duffau 


500 
500 


Falls .'. 


Ceg#. 


500 






300 




Pleasant Grove 


400 




Blue Ridge 


200 




Liberty 


200 




Bellfalls 


500 


Fannin 




350 






300 






400 




Post Oak 


300 




New Hope 


400 






500 




Boyd 


400 






350 




Fulp 


300 






400 






400 






300 






375 






200 




Terry 


350 




Cottage Bend 


300 




Corinth 


400 




Hilger 


400 






500 




Tulip 


400 






500 






300 






400 






500 






500 






400 






300 






500 






500 




Mulberry 


500 




Parker 


300 




Union Valley 

Oak Ridge 


300 
350 




Three P 


500 




Taylorsville 


500 






500 


. 


Hopewell 


500 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 



— 1! 



County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 

No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 


Fannin — Continued 


G. A. Stierling.... 
W. C. Martin 

*E. P. Thompson 


29 

57 

44 
6 
43 
40 
39 
24 
23 
28 
3 
33 
34 

1 
30 

10 

7 

6 

9 

11 

14 

13 

13 

13 

15 

9 

10 

5 
3 
1 
9 

15 

18 
19 
12 
20 
21 

2 

42 
42 
29 
22 
13 

1 
104 
96 
79 
50 
72 

3 

11 
22 

3 
32 
21 

9 


Selfs 


500 
500 






500 






500 


Fayette 


West Point 


450 




200 






500 






300 




North Roby 


225 
275 






500 






300 






300 






350 






300 






100 




Royston 

McCaulley 


500 
500 






500 


Floyd.. 




350 




*G. W. Walthall 




300 






350 






500 






250 




Sand Hill . 


500 






400 






400 






400 


Fort Bend 


Herman Beyer . 
*0. L. Reaves 

Furney Richardson.. 

*S. T. Dowe 

J. M. Fendley 

*A. H. Kneese 

*C. W. Cunningham... 
J. C. Cochran 

Jas. A. Giles 

Walter E. Jones 

J. C. Crutchfield 


Bethel 


300 




Cypress 


300 




250 
400 




Rock Hill 


400 
500 






300 




Mt. Zion.. 


300 






250 






500 


Frio 


Donie... 


500 
400 






500 






300 






300 


Gillespie 


Algoa 

San Leon 


300 
300 

500 


Willow Citv 


500 




Fairview 

Clark.. 


250 




200 




Menger 


200 

200 






350 






500 






500 






500 






500 






500 




Pink Hill.. 


200 






500 




Gladwater 


500 




250 




Keith 

Pine Grove 

Evergreen 

Mesa 

Courtnev 


500 
250 
200 
300 
400 



♦Has exofficio county superintendent. 



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-19— 



County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



Grimes — Continue 



Hale.. 



Hall 



Hamilton.. 



Hansford.... 
Hardeman.. 



Hardin.. 



Harris. 



*W. B. Lewis. 



*S. G. Alexander. 



R. P. Edgar. 



*S. B. Hale 

*Lon M. Davis 

R. P. Gibbs 

J. W. Lyle 



Hartley. 
Haskell.. 



Henderson.. 



*J. H. Phillips.. 
T. C. Williams 



W. S. Harris.. 



District 
No. 



16 
31 

2 

25 
20 
21 
15 
9 
11 



5 
15 
19 

2 
25 
12 

7 
11 
27 



2 
21 
20 
31 
45 
15 
39 



27 
12 
10 

5 
15 
22 

13 
15 
16 
19 
29 
36 
42 
46 
24 
43 
14 
45 
40 
48 
9 



10 
33 
36 

2 
16 
30 

6 
13 
20 
46 
15 
28 
37 



6 

47 
31 



Name of District. 



Singleton.. .._ 

Grimes Smith.. 
Independence . 



Snyder 

Abernathy 

Lake View 

Halfway 

Petersburg 

Norfleet 

Hale Center. 



Hulver 

Pleasant Valley. 

Turkey 

Eli 

Lodge 

Brice 

Newlin 

Indian Creek 

Churchman 

Lake View 



Gentry's Mill. 

Live Oak 

Liberty 

Fairview 

Mason 

Lund 

Tonkawa 

Carlton 

Pottsville 



Common School... 

Medicine Mound 

Hooleyan 

Elba 



Plank 

Honey Island. 
Caney Head.. 



Seabrook 

Cedar Bayou. 

Penn City 

Webster 

Aldine 

Almeda 

Katy 

Dairy 

Southland 

Genoa 

Deer Park 

Mykawa 

Deepwater 

Mt. Houston. 
Willow 



Amount. 



Hartley.... 
Channing. 



Cliff 

Foster 

Roberts 

Judd 

Sayles 

Cook Springs 

Pinkerton 

Lone Star 

Mitchell 

Vontress 

Post 

Rose 

Common School.. 

Weinert 

Carney 

Sagerton 



Trinidad 

Brownsboro.. 
Stockard 



500 
300 
200 

400 
500 
500 
500 
500 
350 
500 

500 
400 
500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
400 
500 
400 

500 
400 
500 
500 
400 
350 
200 
500 
500 

350 

425 
400 
200 

200 
450 
300 

500 
450 
400 
450 
450 
500 
450 
475 
450 
450 
500 
500 
500 
500 
400 

400 
500 

350 
250 
300 
500 
250 
500 
400 
400 
400 
350 
350 
450 
400 
300 
400 
400 

400 
500 
500 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 






—20— 



County. 


County District 
Superintendent. No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 






23 
27 
60 

40 

12 

118 
21 
114 

2 

32 
63 
81 
30 
92 
72 
35 
89 
38 
39 
1 
2 
11 
47 
48 
62 
65 

17 
66 
27 
47 
68 

3 
54 
57 

1 
52 

4 
69 
11 
29 
63 
73 
70 
22 
15 
31 
43 
32 
36 
33 

9 

20 
8 
2 
4 

10 

58 
140 
72 
19 
86 
21 




350 




J. S. Bunn 

Leon Culberson.... 

*W. L. Dean 

John Hurley 

J. N. Snell 

*S. A. Penix .... 

W. H. Ibbolson 


Mallard Prairie 


500 




Sand Flat 


400 


Hidalgo 

Hill 


Cross Roads.. 

Murchison 

Greensboro.. 

Alton.. 


400 
500 
500 

450 

500 




Pierce 


500 
500 
500 






500 






500 






300 




Blum 


500 


Hood . 




500 
500 


Hopkins 


Nelta.. 


500 


Plunkett.... 


500 






500 




Dyke 


500 




Richland.. 


400 
300 






350 






500 






300 






400 




New Home 

Cornersville 

Bethel 


500 
475 
325 






250 




Brannon 


400 
200 






100 






500 




Saltillo.. 


500 






500 






500 






400 






500 






500 






300 




Ash 


500 






450 






450 






500 






450 






350 




Jaunita 


400 
300 






350 




Stubblefield 


350 






250 




Weches 

Energy 


500 
500 
300 






300 






200 




Holley 


350 
500 






500 






250 






350 




Midway.... 


500 
500 






500 






300 


Hunt 


Union Hill . .. 


375 






400 




Hooker 


500 
400 




White Rock 
Midway... 


500 
350 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 







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-21— 



County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 

No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 






83 

66 
6 
4 
55 
44 
26 
63 

1 

19 
20 

19 

15 

21 

8 

2 

10 

4 

2 
16 




450 




J. W. Fulcher 

*J. W. Bagby 

B. T. Withers 

H. C. Daniel 


Floyd 

Caddo Mills 


500 
500 






300 






500 






300 






300 






500 






350 






200 




Bryson 


500 
500 






500 






300 






500 






500 




Mt. Union 


500 




Erin 

Homer 


500 
400 
500 






200 






500 






400 




Bentonville 


500 




G. S. Thomas 

C. L. Prichard 

J. B. Weaver 

*J. W. Darden 

*Ben F. Wilson 

*W. M. Moore 

W. H. Snow 


7 
51 
62 
68 
32 
36 
11 

62 

11 

2 

7 

8 

18 

25 

35 

50 

57 

64 

5 

31 

61 

56 

30 

49 

1 

13 

36 

17 

21 

70 
6 

13 
1 

6 

8 

7 

30 
11 
47 
72 
86 


500 






400 






400 






400 






400 






400 




Cahill 


300 






500 






500 






350 






450 






500 






500 




Elliot.. 


475 




Compere 


475 
500 




Cranston 


350 
460 






450 






200 






500 




Stith 


500 






250 






475 






300 






400 




Pleasant Hill 


350 
200 






450 




Delk 


300 






375 






500 




Leuders 


500 
500 


Kaufman 




400 






500 


Kent 




500 


Kleberg 


Clairemont.... 


500 
200 


Knox 




200 






500 


Lamar 




200 






500 




Forest Hill 


300 




Rocky Hill 


300 




Mt. Olive 


300 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 






—22— 



County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



District 
No. 



Name of District. 



Amount. 



Lamar — Continued 



Lamb.. 
Lampasas. 



Lavaca. 



*C. H. Curl 

*J. T. Higgins. 



Wm. Eilers. 



Lee.. 



Leon 

Liberty 

Limestone 



C. M. Bishop 

J. W. Henderson. 
P. S. Newberry... 



J. R. Atkins 



Lipscomb.. 



*W. A. Sewell 



Live Oak. 



*W. W. Caves. 



Lubbock. 



Lynn 

Madison. 



*E. R. Haynes 



*J. L. Stokes.. 
Jno. T. Conn. 



Mason.. 

Matagorda.. 

McCulloch.. 



♦Glenn W. Smith 
W. C. Gray 

E. L. White 



33 

7 
9 



11 
15 



14 
15 
40 
12 

23 
40 

13 
10 
17 

17 
9 
10 
14 
87 

113 

102 

5 

78 

,13 

66 

1 

72 

106 
64 
29 
73 

104 
35 

1 
24 



11 

2 
5 

24 



1 
23 
17 
20 



27 



13 

17 



11 
11 
13 
31 



Brookston 
Pattonville. 

Minter.. 

Linden 



Littlefield. 



Clayton 

Unity.. 

Adamsville.. 



Komensky 

Rocky 

Moravia 

Provident City.. 



Mally 

Oak Grove... 

Phears.. 

Tanglewood. 



Flo 

Flynn.. 



Hightower 

East Tarkington. 
Box Island 



Mesquite.. 

Pleasant Grove.. 

Bethel 

Box Church 

Yarbroville 

New Hope 

Rocky Point 

Watt 

Nuz 

Horn Hill 

Kirk.. 
Frosa.. 

Dale 

Mustang.... 

Prairie Hill.. 

Davis Prairie 

Delia 

Oliver 

Beulah.. 



Lipscomb 

Plum Creek... 
Loland.. 

Votaw 

Simmons 

Three Rivers.. 
Oakville 



Canyon. 
Center.. 
Bledsoe.. 
Carlisle.. 

Tahoka 



Conner 

Mt. Tabor 

Jenkins 

Mecca 

Willow Hole.. 
North Zulch.. 

Katemcy 
Pontotoc. 

Turtle Bayou. 
Collegeport 
Markham 

Montgomery.. 

Mercury 

Lobn 

Corn Creek.. 



350 
500 
400 
300 

300 

500 
500 
500 

400 
250 
500 
350 

275 
275 
350 
500 

200 
350 

500 
500 
200 

500 
400 
500 
300 
500 
350 
300 
500 
500 
500 
500 
350 
300 
375 
400 
400 
350 
500 
350 

500 
300 
200 

200 
250 
500 
500 

300 
300 
200 
300 

500 

500 
400 
500 
450 
500 
400 

500 
450 

500 
500 
500 

500 
500 
500 
325 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 






-23- 



County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



District 
No. 



Name of District. 



Amount. 



McCuiloch — Conti 



McLennan., 



nued 



Milam. 



R. L. Abbott 



J. F. Chadwick. 



Mills 

Mitchell.... 
Montague 



*G. H. Dalton... 
*J. H. Bullock... 
W. W. Snodgrass 



Montgomery 

Motley 

Nacogdoches 



J. T. Terry 

*C. B. Whitten.. 
Jno. B. Stripling 



Navarro., 



J. B. Davis 



36 
17 
20 
15 
16 

63 
36 

72 



4 
50 
49 
59 
52 
77 
56 
19 
18 
69 

42 



16 



101 
30 
18 
37 
43 
56 
87 
97 
69 
23 
29 
55 
68 

15 



64 
45 
57 
46 
50 
44 
15 
17 
23 
28 
40 
66 
41 
1 
16 
32 
11 
42 
70 
20 
12 
10 



21 

70 

104 

106 

78 

1 

32 

73 

92 



Placid 

Pear Valley 

Harkrider 

Waldrip 

Stacey 

Speegleville 

Spring Valley 

Tokio ! 

Bruceville 

Granger 

Buckholts 

Adhall 

Ben Arnold 

Bryant Station.. 

Eagle 

North Elm 

Pleasant Hill 

Watson Branch. 
Barron 

Prairie 

Star 

Valley View 

Westbrook 

Prairie Hill 

Dye Mound 

Mallard 

Forestburg 

Ringgold 

Fruitland 

Belcherville 

Burr Oak 

Denver 

Uz 

Smyrna 

Oak Bluff 

Duxburg.... 

Splendora 

Roaring Springs 

Lone Star 

Cross Roads 

Moral 

Smyrna 

Jamesville 

Clear Branch 

Harmony 

Oak Ridge 

Waden 

Alozan 

Trinity 

Blake 

Shady Grove 

Swift 

Martinsville 

Attoyac 

Friendship 

Lilbert 

Sacul 

Mahl 

Nat 

Odell 

Appleby 

Mayotown 

Zion's Rest 

Barry 

Horn ..._ 

Round Prairie.... 

Mt. Nebo 

Chatfield 

Navarro 

Purdon 

Greer 



350 
500 
300 
400 
250 

300 
400 
500 
400 

350 
400 
500 
250 
200 
300 
200 
350 
300 
500 

200 
500 

350 
500 

250 
200 
500 
500 
400 
350 
400 
200 
200 
400 
200 
300 
250 

500 

500 

250 
300 
150 
400 
300 
175 
500 
500 
500 
300 
500 
400 
350 
500 
500 
450 
325 
500 
500 
350 
500 
200 
500 
500 

500 
400 
250 
400 
400 
400 
400 
500 
500 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 






—24— 



County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



District 
No. 



Name of District. 



Navarro — Continue 



Newton. 



G. A. Baker. 



Nolan. 



J. L. Ross. 



Nueces 

Ochiltree.. 
Orange 

Palo Pinto 



Nat Benton 

*R. T. Carrell .. 
*D. C. Bland... 

A. F. Jones 



Panola 



L. R. Sharp 



Parker. 



W. V. Shadle. 



Polk 

Raines 

Red River.. 



Refugio. 



J. H. Taylor 

*J. B. Allred 
S. E. Clark.. 



♦Leslie Adkins 



80 
3 



9 
16 

17 
4 

5 
18 
24 
16 
26 
28 
11 
21 
6 
7 



5 
18 

14 

18 

5 

27 
10 

4 
25 

2 
13 
33 



9 
18 
40 
30 
29 
42 
27 
22 
14 

3 
33 
34 

7 
23 
27 
83 
42 
14 
51 



22 

13 

74 
61 
42 



McClung. 
Elm Flat 
Roane 



Toledo 

Burkeville 

Enterprise.. 

Bonweir 

Ford 

Survey 



Nolan 

Summers 

Maryneal.. 

Champion 

Antelope... 

Decker.... 

Ada 

Wastella... 

Dora 

Hilton 



London 
Driscoll. 



Cameron. 
Garrett... 



West Orange.. 
Mauriceville.. 
Vibor.. 



Brazos.. 

Salesville 

Village Bend.... 
Dobbs Valley.. 

Oran 

Brazos Valley.. 
Sharp Valley... 

Gordon 

Palo Pinto 

Santo 

Brooks.. 

Rock Hill 

Fair Play 

Waldrop 

Broome 

Shady Grove... 

Gary 

Jumbo.. 
Alsup 

Deadwood 

Ragley.. 
Brushy 



Post Oak.. 

Peaster 

Rock Tank.. 

Garner.. 

Aledo 

Erwin 

Poe Prairie.... 

Whitt 

Poolville 

Springtown 

Knox... 
New Willard. 

Bright Star 

Garvinsville.. 

Fairview 

Hopewell.. 

Mosley 

Bagwell.. 



Common School. 
Woodsboro.... 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 



WBW$!r®$y' 



-25- 



County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 

No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 




H. A. Bush 


23 
5 
4 
3 

4 
3 
6 

'15 

6 
16 
46 
53 
21 
48 
47 
22 
20 
12 
19 
41 
29-30 

2 
42 
49 

5 
40 
51 
44 

60 
57 
53 
50 
48 
43 
42 
40 
38 
37 
36 
35 
34 
31 
27 
26 
25 
24 
19 
17 
15 
13 
10 

6 

4 

3 

1 

5 
11 
16 

5 
17- 
36 

18 
28 
11 
14 
4 
26 
24 
12 
20 
33 
32 

7 




500 




*J. W. Reese 




400 






500 






400 






500 




L. S. Bird 




200 






500 




Fate 


500 






500 




J. T. Watson 


Walthall-Union 


500 




Old Norton . 


350 




Hatchel . 


500 






250 






210 






330 




Poe 


400 






500 




Pucket > 


375 
500 






500 






400 






350 




Crews 


470 
300 






250 






450 






300 






300 






200 






500 


Rusk 




300 




Shiloh 


500 
200 






300 






350 




Oak Flat 


400 






200 






400 




Mt. Union 


250 




Mt. Hope 


300 




Motly 


300 




Miller 


400 
500 






200 






500 






300 






400 






450 




Good Springs 


400 
350 






350 






500 






400 






250 




Bunker Hill 


300 




Bethel : 


350 






250 




Pirtle 


500 




Church Hill 


350 






300 


Sabine 




500 




Lillie Hazle 


Ruddell.. 


500 






400 


San Augustine 


Melvin .. 


500 




*Wm. McMurrey 




500 






500 




Salem 

White Rock 


500 
500 






500 






400 




Ratcliff 


350 




Harvey Creek 

Wade 

Henry Hill 


500 
500 
500 


San Jacinto 


Oak Shade 


50O 



*Has exoflicio county superintendent. 



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County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



District 
No. 



Name of District. 



Amount. 



San Patricio. 
San Saba 



*M. A. Chi'ders.. 
D. W. Brown 



Scurry. 



Shackelford. 
Shelby 



*C. R. Buchanan 



*J. A. King ... 
I. B. Hammer 



Sherman. 
Smith 



*C. H. Roland 
A. W. Orr . 



Stephens... 
Stonewall. 

Tarrant.. 



*Jesse R. Smith 



T. R. Webb 



G. T. Bludworth 



15 
19 
3 
40 
28 
33 
27 

13 
4 



19 
69 
10 
82 

3 
42 
61 
34 
25 
23 
16 

7 
55 

9 

39 
28 
88 
14 



68 
31 

1 
24 
62 
34 

4 
59 

5 
17 

8 
45 
61 
39 
15 
46 

15 
11 
10 

16 

31 

6 

28 

7 



54 
94 
33 
68 
15 
69 
II 
18 
8 
30 
52 
92 
47 
93 



St. Paul 

Shiloh 

Colony 

Ml. Pleasant... 

Hall 

Crescent 

Bethel 

Jim Ferguson.. 

Fluvanna 

Camp Springs 

Ira 

Hermleigh 

Dunn 



Sedwick. 



Neuville 

Buna Vista.. 

Huber 

Day 

Rose Hill 

Lamar... 

Snow Hill... 

Pine Hill 

Patroon 

Campti 

Clear Creek. 

Blair 

Cedar Yard.. 
Wedgewood. 

Bermuda 

Ballard 

Brown.... 
Harrison 



Texhoma 



Wood Springs... 

Liberty Hill 

Antioch 

Hopewell 

Union Point 

Model 

Bascom... 

Senter Hill 

Black Fork 

Evergreen 

Burns 

Pleasant Grove.. 

Thompson 

Nebo 

Enterprise.. ...:.. 
Pleasant Hill 



Mt. Valley 

Ivan 

Caddo 

Double Mountain. 

Swenson 

Shinery Lake 

Rio Vista 

Brazos Valley.. 

Plainview 

Peacock 



Little 

Hurst.. 

Bedford 

Rendon 

Britton 

New Hope 

Ederville.. 

Azle 

Miller 

Tarrant 

Johnson Station.. 

Duplex 

Pantego .. 
CastleDerry 



500 

500 
500 
500 
500 
400 
500 
200 

500 
500 
500 
500 
500 

200 

500 
500 
400 
400 
300 
500 
300 
350 
400 
250 
200 
500 
350 
350 
450 
400 
250 
350 

400 

400 
450 
300 
500 
500 
450 
450 
300 
400 
400 
400 
400 
300 
400 
500 
500 

500 
200 
500 

250 
500 
400 
200 
325 
325 
500 

500 
400 
500 
350 
500 
300 
300 
500 
250 
200 
500 
300 
350 
350 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 









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County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 
No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 




d 


55 

39 
9 
24 
52 
49 
21 
7 
19 
30 
17 
38 
11 
32 
36 
5 

2 
I 

10 

4 

14 

18 

19 

29 

7 

1 

3 

10 

1 

12 

5 

13 

10 

1 

3 

15 

12 

7 

2 

26 

35 

6 

9 

24 

11 

14 

17 
2 
3 
10 
11 
12 
39 
40 
46 

12 
15 
23 




200 








500 






350 






500 






500 






500 






300 






500 




North Park 


500 




*Geo. W. Neill 

*A. H. King 




500 






500 






425 




Bethel 


500 






500 






500 






500 






375 






500 






500 






500 




Blair 


500 






425 






500 






500 






500 






500 






250 






500 




Elbert 


450 








500 






500 






300 






Chapel Hill 


500 






500 






350 






400 




Monte Cello.. 


300 






500 






500 




Mullen 


400 




W. B. Mills 




500 






500 


Trinity 


Chita 


400 




Grover C. Lowe 

A. L. Bradfield 




400 






500 




White Rock 


300 






350 






400 






450 




Apple Springs 


500 
500 
500 






500 




Josserand 


500 
300 






200 




Hackberry 


425 
250 






350 


Tyler 




300 




Mt. Pisgah 


250 






200 






500 






200 






500 






250 




Shiloh 


300 




Sadell 


250 






400 






500 


Upshur 




400 






425 




Mings Chapel 


400 



*Has exofficio county superintendent. 




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County. 


County 
Superintendent. 


District 

No. 


Name of District. 


Amount. 


Upshur — Cohtinud. 




2 
21 

4 

2 

5 

25 

56 

59 

87 

109 

110 

13 

103 

18 

39 

17 

53 

29 

40 

21 

8 
12 

4 

8 

4 

28 

42 
8 

21 
17 
20 
25 
16 
23 
30 
4 
12 
14 
35 
31 
19 

21 
27 
26 

3 

5 
37 
24 
39 
16 
40 
43 
32 
27 

1 

29 
35 
47 
18 
55 
3 


Simpsonville 

Glenwood 

Ore City 


500 


J. E. Matthews 

G. D. Staton 

Geo. M. Crutsinger 

J. C. Thomas 

T. A. Kelly 

*Burch Carson.. 

Wm. Boemer 

Oswald Garrett 

*M. M. Miller 

R. M. Johnson.. 

L. A. Hollar 

P. E. Root 

J. E. Swift 


400 
500 




Montell 


500 






500 






400 






450 




Mill Creek 


250 






400 






500 






400 




Sexton 

Myrtle Springs 


400 
500 
350 




High 

Colfax 

Lawrence Springs 


250 
500 
250 
250 




Van 


500 






300 




Previtt 


360 






400 


Victoria 
Walker 


Canton 

Martin's Mill 

Levi 

Clines Prairie.. 

Bath 

Moore's Grove 

Shiloh 
Waller... 

Pyote .......... 

Independence 


500 
500 

350 

500 


Waller 


500 
500 

500 


Ward 

Washington 

Wharton 


500 
500 
200 
250 




Palmetto 


500 
500 


Wheeler.. 


Mobeetie.. 

Wheeler.. 


500 
500 
300 






225 




Lela.... 

Mt. Zion.. 


200 
200 




Plainview 


250 
300 






200 




Kelton 


200 






200 




Merry Flats 


300 


Wichita 


Locust Grove 

Cashion 

Pond Creek 

Cobb 


275 

500 
150 
300 
300 


Wilbarger 


Doans 

Odell 

Tolbert 

Mapel Hill 


300 
500 
450 
500 




Haulk 


450 






200 






350 




Elliott 


500 




Oklaunion 


500 
500 


Williamson 


Cedar Valley 


300 
300 






400 






500 






400 


Wilson 


Leander. 

Sutherland Springs 


300 
500 



*Has exoflicio county superintendent. 



" ••■■,'•„.•: v ■ • ■■■.-■■ -, :: r -^^fi 






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County. 



County 
Superintendent. 



District 
No. 



Name of District. 



Amount. 



Wise.... 



Brandon TrusselL 



Wood. 



T. O. Craddock. 



Young. 



B. W. King.. 



67 
74 
92 
23 
48 
53 
79 

5 
22 

8 
61 
68 
15 



21 

48 

9 

54 
42 
44 
1 
55 



Lone Mound 

Audobon 

Park Springs 

Crafton 

Boyd 

New Ark 

Rush Creek 

Cart-wright 

Pleasant Ridge. 

Forest Home 

Ayer 

Mills Springs.... 

Stout 

Pleasant Grove. 
Yantis 

Lone Oak 

Ingleside 

Henry's Chapel 

Gray 

Loving 

Lamar 

Bitter Creek 

Ben Waters 



150 
350 
500 
500 
325 
300 
300 

500 
500 
400 
350 
300 
500 
500 
400 

250 
350 
250 
300 
300 
300 
375 
375 




HHHMMM 



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THE APPROPRIATION FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS 

Sec. 187. The Appropriation. — For the purpose of promoting the 
country school interests of the State and of aiding the people in pro- 
viding adequate school facilities for the education of their children, 
$500,000, or such part thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro- 
priated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated for the school year ending August 31, 1916, and $500,000, or 
such part thereof as may be necessary, for the year ending August 31, 
19.17, to be used in accordance with the provisions of this Act in main- 
taining country schools. 

State aid under the provisions of this Act will be distributed' in such a 
way as to assist all schools that meet the conditions to maintain a minimum 
school term of six months in each year, and, if possible, a maximum school 
term of nine months. This appropriation is for the weaker country districts 
which cannot maintain suitable schools upon their own resources. 

Before any school may receive an appropriation, its application must show 
that the trustees are without the necessary funds to maintain a suitable school, 
that the citizens have exhausted every legitimate means at their disposal to 
provide adequate funds, and that the trustees will, if aid is extended, use 
the money in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of the law. 

Sue. 188. Distribution of Aid. — The State Board of Education is 
hereby authorized and directed to supplement the State apportionment 
to any school coming within the provisions of this Act with an amount 
not more than $500.00 in any one year, the amount to be determined 
by the Board upon the merits and needs of the school. 

All applications for State aid under this Act shall be made upon 
the form prescribed by the State Board of Education and furnished 
by the State Department of Education. Before any application is pre- 
sented to the State Board of Education for its consideration the State 
Superintendent shall make careful investigation regarding its com- 
pleteness, and his certificate that each school applying for State aid 
meets substantially the requirements of the law shall be required by 
the Board before aid in any amount is granted. 

An appropriation made in accordance with the provisions of this Act will 
be used in the same manner and for the same purposes as govern the ex- 
penditure of the State and county apportionments. 

This section requires the State Superintendent to make careful investiga- 
tion relative to the application of each school. This will be done by means of 
the blank to be used by schools applying for aid, through correspondence and 
by personal visitation by the State Superintendent or his representative. 

Si:c. 189. Standards and Requirements. — Any school meeting the 
following standards shall be entitled to receive State aid : 

1. Location. — Each school receiving State aid shall be well located 
on a plot of ground not less than one acre in extent, properly drained 
and suitably laid out. 



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The school site should be as near the center of population of the district 
as practicable. It should be accessible and within easy reach of the public- 
highways. It should also be located so as to conserve the health of school 
children. A school site should contain not less than one acre of ground, and 
as much more as the resources of the district will admit. Large, well laid 
out playgrounds and school gardens will add to the effectiveness of the school 
plant. A school garden is not prerequisite to receiving State aid under this 
Act. 

2. School House. — There shall be provided a suitable school house 
erected in accordance with the provisions of the school house building 
law of Texas or meeting substantially the requirements thereof. 

A school house to meet substantially the requirements of the State school 
house building law must be properly lighted, ventilated and heated. 

To be properly lighted a school building must have at least one-sixth as 
much clear window surface as there is floor space. The main light should be 
admitted into the room so as to fall upon the pupils' left when seated at 
their desks. The tops of the windows should extend to within six inches of 
the ceiling and the window sills to a point not lower than three and one- 
half feet from the floor. 

To be properly heated and ventilated, a school building should be furnished 
with an approved system of heating and ventilation. The law requires that 
heaters be jacketed, and provided with fresh air intake and foul air vent so 
that each pupil in the average school room be provided with at least thirty 
cubic feet of warm fresh air per minute. 

The building law further requires that all doors open outwardly; that floors 
be oiled; that school buildings two or more stories in height be provided with 
at least two widely separated stairways; and that all inside finishing be with- 
out unnecessary fluting and carvings as catch dust and microbes. 

3. Equipment. — Each such school shall be provided with necessary 
desks, seats and blackboards; and with such library, books, maps, and 
globes as recommended in the State course of study, as in the opinion, 
of the State Superintendent said school may be able to purchase. 

A systematic effort will be made to assist all country schools entitled to* 
receive aid under this appropriation, and it should be expressly understood 
that the function of the State Department of Education in this respect is to 
help schools to meet the seven standards and requirements in so far as it is 
possible to help local boards. 

The fact that a school cannot as it stands meet the standards and require- 
ments is no reason why such school should remain disqualified. From a care- 
ful reading of the opening sentence of Section 189 it will be noted that "any 
school meeting the following standards shall be entitled to receive State aid." 
Therefore, the "door" is not closed to any school but is open to all who will 
endeavor of their own accord to meet the standards as prescribed by law. 

In submitting its application for State aid, a school should give full in- 
formation as to its equipment. If it does not meet fully all the requirements 
as to equipment the school trustees should make a definite statement of what 
will be done to meet the requirements of the law in case State aid is ex- 
tended them. 

4. Teachers. — Teachers employed in country schools shall furnish to> 
the State Superintendent satisfactory evidence of professional training 
to their credit, and all teachers must render efficient service of a high 
grade. 

In' selecting teachers, school boards should consider, among other things,, 
the following qualifications: 



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1. Academic training. 

2. Professional training. 

3. Character. 

4. Experience. 

5. Grade of certificate held. 

State aid will not be given the second time if it be found that the teachers 
employed are not rendering service of a high grade. 

5. Attendance. — In order to receive State aid, each community 
school must have an enrollment of not more than two hundred pupils, 
and the attendance record of all such schools for the previous year 
must not be less than 50 per cent of the entire time that the school 
was in session, and said school must maintain an attendance record 
during the year in which it receives such aid of at least 75 per cent, 
unless it can be shown to the satisfaction of the State Board of Edu- 
cation that the non-attendance is due to one or more of the following 
causes: (1) Attendance elsewhere; (2) completion of the course; 
(3) extreme povertv of the family; (4) physical or mental incapacity; 
(5) lack of transportation facilities beyond a two and a half-mile limit; 
and providing that no school receiving aid under the provisions of this 
Act shall be located in a town or city having more than one thousand 
population according to the last Federal census. 

To receive aid under the provisions of this Act, a district must not have 
a scholastic population of more than two hundred, white and colored. 
This limitation applies to the entire district, both white and colored, and not 
to the individual schools in a district. 

The percentage of attendance is determined by dividing the average daily 
attendance of the entire term by the number of scholastics enumerated in the 
district, with the above exemptions deducted. 

6. Local Tax. — The school district must have levied and be collect- 
ing a local school tax of not less than 50 cents on the $100.00 val- 
uation; provided, that for the school year 1915-16 any district which 
having voted the required tax, whether being collected for that year 
or not, shall be entitled to receive the benefits of this Act; provided, 
that the State Board of Education may, in its discretion, for one time 
only, apportion any amount not to exceed $200.00, whether any tax 
has been levied or not, and State aid may be continued upon condition 
that the district levy and collect the required local tax. 

The fifty cents local school tax may be all for maintenance, or it may be 
part for maintenance and part for interest and sinking fund purposes. After the 
school year 1915-16, State aid for the second time will not be given a school 
that does not levy and collect fifty cents on the one hundred dollars valua- 
tion for school purposes. 



7. Subjects 
subjects. 



-Each country school shall teach the common school 



Instruction may be given in manual training and domestic economy. Such 
instruction is not prerequisite to receiving State aid. It is not necessary to 
have an agricultural garden or farm, or to have a teacher who devotes all of 
his time to agriculture. Agriculture, however, is required to be taught in all 
the public schools of Texas except in independent school districts having three 
hundred or more scholastics. See Section 90, School Laws of 1915. 




; 



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Sec. 190. General Power of State Board of Education. — The State 
Board of Education shall be authorized and it shall be their duty to 
make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the terms of 
this Act, as, in its opinion, may be necessary to carry out the provisions 
and intentions of this Act. 

Sec. 191. Duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction. — It shall 
be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to go in 
person or to send some one of the rural school supervisors authorized 
by this Act to assist the school communities who may desire the privi- 
leges of this Act in their efforts to meet the necessary requirements in 
order that they may participate in the distribution of the funds herein 
appropriated. 

Before approving any application he shall make a thorough investi- 
gation in person or through his representative of the grounds, build- 
ings, equipment and possibilities of each school applying for State aid 
by appropriation from the State Board of Education. 

This section requires the State Superintendent to make a thorough investi- 
gation in person or through his representative of each school applying for 
State aid under the provisions of this Act. The representatives of the State 
Department of Education will visit schools with a view to rendering helpful 
service to school boards in order that adequate facilities may be provided 
for the education of children in country districts. 

Sec 192. Second Aid.- — Before State aid shall be granted a second 
time to the same school, it shall be necessary that all reports as required 
of the school officials of said district shall have been received and 
approved; that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction or one 
of the rural school supervisors shall have visited said school, and the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction has advised the State Board 
of Education that, in his judgment, the school officials of such district 
have made diligent efforts to meet the requirements and standards as 
set forth in this Act, that the school receiving State aid has made satis- 
factory progress under existing conditions, and that, in his opinion, 
further aid would prove a good and desirable investment for the State 
in promoting the educational interests of the people of such district. 

State aid under the provisions of this Act will not be extended a second 
time to a district that is not levying and collecting a local school tax of fifty 
cents on the $100 valuation. Before aid is extended a second time all reports 
of the school for the previous year required by law and by the State and 
county superintendents must be made and approved. The school must also 
show that satisfactory progress has been made and that additional aid is 
both necessary and advisable. 

Sec. 193. Warrants and Reports. — Warrants for all money granted 
under the provisions of this Act shall be transmitted by the State 
Superintendent of Public, Instruction to treasurers or depositors ""(de- 
positories) of school districts to which State aid is granted in the same 
manner as warrants for State apportionment are now transmitted, and 
it shall be the duty of all treasurers or depositories to make annually 
itemized reports under oath to the State Superintendent of Public In- 



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struction of the expenditure of all money granted under the provisions 
of this Act. 

Warrants for all money granted under the provisions of this Aft will be sent 
to the depositories of the schools receiving aid and not to the local school boards. 

The depositories of schools receiving State aid will be required to submit each 
year a sworn itemized statement of the expenditure of all money granted under 
the provisions of this Act, and all vouchers drawn against this fund should be 
marked accordingly. 

Sec. 194. Apportionment Privileges. — Country community schools 
shall still he entitled to share in the distribution of State and county 
available school funds, and in all other school funds in the same manner 
as other school districts; and in case high school grades are maintained 
the community school shall still he entitled to participate in the dis- 
tribution of any State aid that may be extended by the Legislature of 
Texas for vocational or industrial purposes to high schools of the State, 
though it accept the provisions of this Act. 

The fact that a school district receives State aid under this Act will not 

necessarily debar it from receiving State aid for establishing, equipping, and 

maintaining departments of agriculture, manual training, and domestic 
economy. 






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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 

A school to be eligible to receive aid under this law must comply 
with the following minimum requirements: 

SITE 

1. The school building must be well located on a plat of ground 
not less than one acre in extent (a five-acre tract of land is to be 
preferred). 

2. The premises must be clean and well kept, and the planting of 
shade trees should be encouraged. 

3. The water must be pure, sufficient, and furnished to pupils in a 
convenient and sanitary manner. 

BUILDINGS 

1. There must be as many separate rooms as there are teachers. 

2. The rooms must be comfortable and the buildings in good repair. 

3. The amount of clear light surface for each room must be at least 
one-sixth of the floor space, and the light must be admitted from the 
left or left and rear only of the pupils seated at their desks. 

4. Each room must be provided with a modern heating and ven- 
tilating system properly installed in compliance with the State school- 
house building law. In selecting heaters, observe the following measure- 
ments as to school rooms and cross-sectional area of fire-pot at stove 
door: Eooms of 8000 cubic feet or less require not less than 16-inch 
fire-pot; of 8000-12,000 cubic feet, uot less than 18-inch fire-pot; of 
12,000 cubic feet or more, not less than 20-inch fire-pot. 

5. There must be at least two separate outhouses or toilets and 
they must be kept clean, sanitary, and attractive. 

EQUIPMENT 

1. Each room must be provided with a teacher's desk costing ap- 
proximately $10, and a teacher's chair costing approximately $2. 

2. Each room must be provided with a sufficient number of modern 
patent desks (single desks preferred), properly spaced to accommodate 
the pupils, and screwed down in a neat and orderly manner. 

3. Each room must be provided with at least ninety square feet of 
first class blackboard (hyloplate or better grade) framed with neat 
moulding and provided with chalk rail. Hyloplate costs approximately 
ten cents per square foot, and genuine slate approximately twenty-eight 
cents. Blackboard for primary pupils should not be more than twenty- 
six inches from the floor. 

4. Each school must have a set of at least eight maps, including a 
map of Texas, costing approximately $12.50 ; and, if more than one 
teacher, each map should be in a separate case, steel or wood, costing 
approximately $2.50 for steel and $2.00 for wood. 

5. Each school must have at least one 12-inch or larger meridian 
globe, costing approximately $5.00. 






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6. Each school must be provided with one or more copies of the 
health chart on the prevention of diseases issued by the State Board 
of Health, Austin, Texas, furnished free, and one standard physio- 
logical chart costing approximately $10.00. 

7. Each school must be provided with at least $25 worth of books 
jier teacher, the books to be selected from the list found in this bulletin, 
pages 46-65, and be adapted to the needs of the school. For the ele- 
mentary grades a dictionary of the grade of Webster's Secondary-School 
Dictionary, costing approximately $1.50, should be provided. For 
pupils of high school grades a larger dictionary is necessary. The list 
of books on hand or selected must be submitted to the State Depart- 
ment of Education for final approval, and the name, the author, the 
publisher and the cost or estimated value of each book must be given. 

TEACHERS 

Each school must employ a sufficient number of competent teach- 
ers to do acceptable work. If the school emplovs more than one teacher, 
the head teacher or principal should hold a first or higher grade cer- 
tificate. A second grade certificate is not satisfactory evidence of the 
teacher's professional training. 

SCHOLASTIC ENUMERATION 

The total enumeration according to the latest census trustee's 
report must not be more than 200 pupils of scholastic age, both white 
and colored, and the school must not be located in a town or city 
having more than 1000 population according to the latest Federal census. 

AVERAGE ATTENDANCE 

1. For schools that have not heretofore received State aid, the 
average daily attendance for the scholastic year 1015-16 must not have 
been less than 50 per cent of the scholastic census enumeration for 
that year, and not less than 75 j)cr cent for the current year, with 
certain exceptions as provided by law. 

2. For schools that have received State aid heretofore the average 
dailv attendance for the scholastic vears 1915-16 and 1916-17 must not 
be less than 75 per cent of the scholastic census enumeration for said 
years except as provided by law. 

LOCAL TAX 

The total school tax for all purposes must be not less than 50 cents 
on the $100 valuation. Schools collecting a local tax of 50 cents on 
the $100 valuation may not receive more than $500 in any one year, 
and are thereby given preference in the law. Tn extreme cases, and in 
cases of emergency, schools with a tax rate less than 50 cents, and meet- 
ing the other standards and requirements, may be granted State aid 
in an amount of not more than $200 for one time only. 






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MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE AID UNDER 
THE MILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION 

THE BUILDING SITE 

In a great many instances very little consideration has been given to 
the matter of selecting a suitable building site for the school, especially 
in rural school districts. Oftentimes the land chosen for a site is 
regarded as worthless for any other purpose, and certainly very undesir- 
able for the location of a rural school plant, where the children of the 
community will be required to spend a large portion of the growing period 
of their lives. 

The site must contain at least one acre of land ; four or five acres 
would be preferable. The most attractive site obtainable should be 
selected, giving due consideration, of course, to the convenience and 
accessibility of the population to be served by the school, and the future 
development of the district. The site should be located on an estab- 
lished public road and as near to the geographical center of the terri- 
tory to be served as practicable. 

The land selected for the site should have a gradual slope away from 
the school building and not broken by ditches or ravines. The soil 
should be fertile and well adapted to the growing of shade trees, shrub- 
bery, and flowers, and be suitable for school gardens and demonstration 
plats for classes in agriculture. 



BUILDINGS 

Rooms. — There must be as many separate rooms as there are teachers 
in the school. Cloth curtains or other kinds of improvised temporary 
partitions are not satisfactory. All partitions should be substantially 
made and extend full height of walls so as to make each class room 
separate and distinct from every other class room. Adjustable par- 
titions, such as accordeon or rising doors, are acceptable if properly 
installed to insure their safe and successful operation. 

In the erection of new buildings or in the remodeling of old ones, 
all class rooms should be approximately of the following dimensions : 
Length 32 feet, width 24 feet, wall not less than 12^ feet inside. The 
widtli of the room should be twice the distance from the floor to the 
top of main light windows. 

The rooms should be comfortable and the buildings in a good state 
of repair. Attention should be given to see that no panes are missing 
in the windows and that all doors are equipped with locks and keys. 

Painting.- — Tbe buildings should be made as attractive as possible. 
If they are not painted or if in need of repainting, this should be done. 
Nothing adds quite so much to the appearance of a school building as 
paint, provided due consideration is given to the selection of the proper 
colors and the manner in which the paint is applied. All school build- 
ings should be painted both inside and outside according to some har- 






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monious and attractive color scheme. There are many excellent schemes 
which are pleasing to the eye. The following schemes have been used 
in many schools, and are beautiful. For outside: paint roof black, 
walls steel gray or lead, and trim with brown or white. For inside: 
paint in three-color or two-color effect. If three colors are desired, paint 
wainscot, or to wainscot height (3^ feet), window and door frames 
in chocolate brown or dark green; side walls and window and door sash 
in stone green or very light gray; and overhead ceiling in cream color, 
or very light gray, if stone or pale green is used on side walls above 
wainscot. A plain 'sanitary molding should be run around the room 
at wainscot height and painted same color as wainscot, if three colors 
are used. If only two colors are used inside, use light green or light 
gray for side walls, and cream or light buff for overhead ceiling. It 
is not advisable to paint entire inside of same color because of the 
monotonous effect on the eyes of the pupils. White is not the most 
desirable color for outside work except as trimming on account of the 
fact that it reflects the light too strongly, and soon becomes soiled 
and dingy. 

Lighting. — The amount of clear light surface must be at least one- 
sixth the floor space for each room, and the light must be admitted 
from the left, or the left and rear, only, of the pupils seated at their 
desks. There have been many mistakes made on this point, and they 
are inexcusable. A simple calculation will enable anyone to deter- 
mine the exact amount of clear light surface, or window space, required 
to light a school room properly. 

It is desirable to have all light admitted through closely grouped 
windows from the left of the pupils when they are seated at their desks, 
and this should always be done when it is possible or practicable to do 
so. If the required amount of light cannot be obtained from the left, 
then, in addition, a sufficient number of rear windows may be put in 
to provide the required amount of clear light surface. All windows 
for the admission of the main light should extend within six inches of 
the ceiling and should not come nearer than within three and one-half 
feet of the floor. Eear light windows should extend Avithin six inches 
of the ceiling and not nearer than within seven feet of the floor All 
windows should be fixed so that both sashes may lie raised or lowered 
when necessary for purposes of ventilation in warm weather. 

Each room should also be provided with other windows for ventila- 
tion purposes. Such windows may be placed on the right of the pupils. 
or in front of them above the blackboard, provided that all such win- 
dows lie fitted with substantially made wooden louvres or blinds to 
exclude the light and admit the air. These louvres or blinds con- 
sist of a strong wooden frame fitted with slats put in the frame at an 
angle of 45 degrees, and should be fastened inside the window frame 
on outside with long wood screws. Windows for ventilation may extend 
to within three feet of the floor and mav be the same style as the light 
windows. 



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Heating and Ventilation. — Each room mitst be provided with a mod- 
ern heating and ventilating system properly installed in compliance 
with the State schoolhouse building law. No kind of system will be 
accepted which does not provide for fresh air to be brought into the 
room and warmed before being distributed over the room, and for the 
foul air to be removed through an opening either in main flue or 
foul air fine. No system will be accepted which will not insure an 
even temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit in all parts of the room 
in the coldest weather without keeping too hot a fire. In providing 
for the installation of a modern ventilating and heating system, the 
following dimensions are agreed upon and recommended by the best 
authorities on the subject : 

Cubic contents of room. 
8000 cu. ft. 8000 to 12,000 to 
or less. 12,000 en. ft. 16,000 cu. ft. 

Not less than 
sq. in. sq. in. sq. in. 

I. When foul air is removed through 
smoke flue: 

1. Smoke flue (inside) 192 256 400 

2. Four air vent ,. . 1-14 216 320 

3. Fresh air intake 144 . 216 320 

II. When foul air is removed through 

separate flue: 

1. Smoke flue (inside) 81 144 216 

2. Foul air vent 192 256 288 

3. Fresh air intake 192 256 288 

There are qnite a number of different heating and ventilating sys- 
tems on the market. Only those which have been approved by the 
State Department of Education as meeting the requirements of the 
State school house building law will be accepted as meeting the require- 
ments for schools receiving State aid. Several systems have already 
been approved by the Department as meeting the requirements of the 
law, if properly installed. This approval by the State Department of 
Education is in no sense an endorsement of any system as to material, 
mechanical workmanship, or durability. It simply means that the sys- 
tem, if properly installed will meet the requirements of the school house 
building law. 

Of the several systems approved by the State Department of Edu- 
cation, some are doubtless superior to others. Trustees and county 
superintendents must be their own judges as to the merits of the sev- 
eral systems. They will do well to investigate the several systems 
approved before making a purchase, and be sure that they are get- 
ting value received for the expenditure. In several counties a plan of 
co-operative purchasing of equipment has been adopted with profit to 
the schools. When several heating and ventilating systems, as well as 
other equipment are to be purchased, the trustees of the interested 



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schools and the county superintendent call a meeting for such purpose 
and invite the representatives of the different concerns selling such 
equipment to attend such meeting and exhibit their goods and submit 
bids on the equipment which will likely he used during that year among 
the schools of the county. This plan seems entirely practicable, and 
ought to make it possible for the trustees to have a better understanding 
of what their schools really need and to enable them to get the lowest 
price, usually, on the equipment which they purchase. 

Water Supply. — There must be an abundant supply of pure drinking 
water on, or conveniently near, to the school grounds, and adequate 
facilities must be provided to furnish water to the pupils of the school 
in a convenient and sanitary manner. 

Well or spring water is acceptable if known to be free from harmful 
mineral properties, and if spring or well is so situated or covered' as 
to prevent any possible danger of contamination from any source. Cis- 
tern water is satisfactorv if carried from roofs in screened gutters, and 
filtered through charcoal and fine gravel or coarse sand. The cement- 
lined underground cistern is much to be preferred to the one above 
ground for obvious reasons. Cisterns should be of sufficient capacity 
to furnish an ample supply of pure water for the entire year. Water 
from stock tanks, ponds, creeks, and other such unprotected sources is 
exceedingly dangerous for drinking purposes and will not be acceptable. 

The old-fashioned, germ-laden bucket and rope should be discarded. 
The school well or cistern should be provided with a good pump. The 
endless chain lifting pump is recommended for underground cisterns 
because cistern water needs to be frequently aerated or stirred. 

The ordinary water bucket and common drinking cup should not be 
permitted in the school under any consideration. Where water pressure 
is available sanitary drinking fountains may be installed at reasonable 
cost. Where water pressure cannot be had, sanitary water cans or 
barrels, fitted with several large automatic faucets and mounted on sub- 
stantial stands, may be provided at convenient places on the school 
grounds. If such cans or barrels are used they should have frequent 
attention to make sure they are kept in a sanitary condition. There 
are other methods which will be satisfactory and acceptable, provided 
the water is furnished to the pupils in a convenient and sanitary manner. 

Outhouses or Toilets. — The outdoor outhouse or toilet has been a very 
perplexing problem to the rural district. Even under the most favor- 
able conditions it is frequently a menace to health and also to morals. 
Unless every precaution is taken by frequent disinfection for guarding 
against flies and danger of contamination of the water supply, the out- 
house may be a source of disease not only to the children who attend 
the school", but to the entire community as well. The most satisfactory 
solution of this problem where a sewerage system is not practicable, is 
the outdoor sanitary chemical closet. 

The principal features of this toilet, in addition to a well constructed 
house of sufficient size to accommodate the school, is a speciallv made 






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fourteen-gange metal tank painted with a preparation of graphite and 
asphaltum, and placed in concrete to prevent rusting; a porcelain 
finished, cast iron bowl similar in appearance to that use'd in ordinary 
(lush water closet; and a twenty-eight gauge galvanized five-inch vent 
pipe for the removal of foul gases. Into> this metal tank is. placed a 
specially prepared chemical solution, which soon destroys all harmful 
bacteria in the excretions, and reduces the solid matter to a liquid form 
so there is no danger in emptying the contents of the tank anywhere. 
All odors are eliminated so that the emptying process is not disagree- 
able. This type of toilet, being odorless and sanitary, may be placed 
in a school building or residence with perfect safety. 

In the event the school district is not financially able to install the 
sanitary chemical toilet, and the "dry" toilet must be continued in use, 
great care should be exercised in installing it. In addition to a sub- 
stantially and attractively built house, there should be a water-tight 
concrete receptacle for the excretions to prevent the contamination of 
the water supply; a covered dust bin or lime box for a supply of road 
dust or slacked lime. This box should be placed high enough on the 
walls so that there will be no temptation for boys to make improper 
use of it. The excretions in the concrete vault should be treated daily 
with at least a pint of slaked lime for each seat in the toilet. 

There is no greater source of disease than neglected school toilets. 
All openings should be carefully screened, and the vaults provided with 
vent pipes for the removal of foul gases. Care should also be taken 
in the construction of the covers for the seats. Each cover board should 
be fitted with brass hinges which are rust-proof, and the cover hinge 
should be at least six inches behind the opening. There should be a 
stop to prevent the cover board being raised more than 90 degrees so 
that it will automaticallv close itself when toilet is not in use. 



EQUIPMENT 

Furniture. — As careful attention should be given to the selection of 
the furniture for the school room as for a living room. The color of 
the furniture should be in keeping and in harmony with that of the 
walls of the rooms. Each room must be provided with a neat teacher's 
desk and teacher's chair, a sufficient number of well-made and attractive 
bookcases for the books of the library, and a sufficient number of mod- 
ern patent desks (single desks preferred) of proper sizes, and properly 
spaced to accommodate all of the pupils in the room. Pupils' desks 
should be arranged in neat rows, and all the desks of a row should be 
of uniform size, that is, No. 1 size in one row, No. 2 size in another 
row, etc. All pupils' desks must be screwed to the floor or to thin boards 
in a Heat and orderly manner. 

BlacTcboards. — Blackboards should be provided in every available space 
in the room. There must be at least ninety square feet of blackboard 
for each room. Hyloplate, Beaver board, or better grade, will be ac- 
ceptable. Genuine slate is recommended to schools able to purchase it 



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as being best and cheapest in the long run. For the different depart- 
ments of the school, the blackboard should be placed at the following 
heights from the floor: Primary department, 26 inches; intermediate 
department. 30 inches: high school department, 34 inches. Slated cloth, 
or painted boards or walls arc not satisfactory and will not be accepted. 

Maps, Globes, and Charts. — Each school must have a set of at least 
eight standard maps, including maps of the United States and Texas. 
If there are more than one teacher in the school there should be a sep- 
arate set of maps for each room ; or each map should be in a separate 
case, either steel or wood, so that it may be easily carried from room 
to room when needed. 

For each room there must be a standard meridian globe of not less 
than twelve inches in diameter: Larger globes are recommended where 
schools are financially aide to provide them. 

Each school must possess a standard chart on the subject of physiology 
and hygiene. Historical and agricultural charts are advised for schools 
having available funds to purchase them. 

Library. — Every school should have a library of carefully selected 
books well adapted to the needs of the school. Schools receiving State 
aid from the million dollar appropriation mvst have well adapted 
libraries on the basis of at least twenty-five dollars worth of books for 
each teacher in the school. In selecting a library, every grade in the 
school should be kept in mind, and the books should be properly dis- 
tributed among the grades. In elementary schools, it is not advisable 
to purchase large dictionaries or extensive reference works. A dic- 
tionary of the grade of Webster's Secondary School Dictionary will be 
found quite sufficient for such schools, and some of the smaller and 
less expensive encyclopedias are better adapted for all practical pur- 
poses. In schools offering high school instruction, a larger dictionary 
and the more extensive encyclopedias are advised. 

Library books must be selected from the list approved by the State 
Department of Education and published on pages 46 to 65 of this 
bulletin. Before purchasing a library for such schools, those having the 
matter in charge should send to the State Department of Education a 
list of the proposed books to be selected, .indicating the title, the author, 
the publisher, and the price of each book. Such list will receive prompt 
attention by the Department and will be returned with the approval of 
the Department, or with such criticisms and instructions as may be 
found advisable. When list is finally approved, the books should be 
purchased and delivered to the school. 

In order that the books mav be protected and preserved, a substan- 
tial bookcase should be provided with lock and key, or, better, a small 
room should he built for the safekeeping of the library, and some efficient 
system should be adopted by the teacher to encourage the proper use 
of the books, and to keep track of them so that they will not be de- 
stroyed or lost. Tf it should seem unsafe to leave the books at the 
school building during the vacation period, they should be left at the 



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home or office of some responsible person, and returned to the school 
at the opening of the next school session. 

TEACHERS 

Pestalozzi expressed it aptly when he said, "As the teacher, so the 
school.'' The teacher is unquestionably the most important factor in 
the success of the school, and for this reason State aid from the million 
dollar appropriation is made contingent upon the qualification of the 
teacher, and the character of service rendered by him in the school. 

The duty of selecting competent teachers is the greatest responsibility 
which devolves upon trustees and county superintendents. Trustees 
should never employ a teacher until they have carefully considered the 
matter in a meeting of the board, in the light of all the information 
they are able to secure as to the applicant's qualifications and fitness 
for their school. The law makes the county superintendent a party to 
the contract with the teacher, and it is his duty to exercise due diligence 
in approving contracts with teachers, to the end that the best interests 
of the school children of the county may be served. There should be 
the most cordial feeling and hearty co-operation between the trustees 
and the county superintendent in the administration of the schools of 
the county. Each should most courteously respect the authority of the 
other. If this condition prevails among the school officials of the county 
there will be little occasion for misunderstanding, and the success of 
the schools will be assured. 

In the selection of teachers, trustees and county superintendents should 
especially consider, among other things, the following essential quali- 
fications : Adequate academic and professional training, good character, 
successful experience, and grade of certificate held. 

To be eligible to receive State aid from the million dollar appropri- 
ation, a school must employ a sufficient number of competent teachers 
to do acceptable work. If the school employs more than one teacher, the 
head teacher or principal must hold a first or higher grade certificate. 
A second grade certificate is not satisfactory evidence of the teacher's 
professional training. State aid will not be recommended a second 
time, if it be found that the teachers employed are not rendering a 
service of high grade. 

SCHOLASTIC ENUMERATION 

According to the law, a school is not eligible to receive aid from the 
million dollar appropriation if the school district has a scholastic enu- 
meration of more than tAvo hundred pupils, both white and colored, 
according to the latest approved census rolls of the district ; or if located 
in a town or city having more than one thousand population according 
to the latest Federal census. 



AVERAGE ATTENDANCE 



One of the important aims of the law providing State aid for country 
schools is to stimulate the attendance upon the school. Hence, the 



requirement is made of schools seeking State aid that in order to be 
eligible to receive such aid. the average daily attendance of pupils in 
the school must have been at least 50 per cent of the entire scholastic 
enumeration for the previous year, and not less than 75 per cent during 
the year that State aid is received, "unless it can be shown to the satis- 
faction of the State Board of Education that the non-attendance is 
due to one or more of the following causes : (1 ) Attendance elsewhere ; 
(2) completion of the course; (3) extreme poverty; (4) physical or 
mental incapacity; (5) lack of transportation facilities beyond a two 
and one-half mile limit.'* 



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LOCAL SCHOOL TAX 

As stated in the law, the purpose of the million dollar appropriation 
is to promote the interests of the rural schools of the State by supple- 
menting the funds of the weaker country schools received from the usual 
sources, and thus enable them to provide better educational advantages 
for the children who depend upon such schools for their scholastic 
training. 

In distributing the million dollar appropriation among the rural 
schools of the State, it is the policy of the State to help those who are 
willing to help themselves. !STo district is eligible to receive aid under 
this law unless it levies and collects for all purposes, both for bonds 
and maintenance, a local school tax of the rate of fifty cents on the one 
hundred dollars of taxable property in the district, except as herein- 
after stated. Such districts as levy such fifty-cent rate, and meet all 
the other standards and requirements may receive any sum not to exceed 
five hundred dollars in any one year, and are given preference in the law. 

In extreme cases and in cases of emergency, districts with a local 
school tax rate of less than fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of 
assessed property valuation, and meeting all the other standards and 
requirements of the law may receive any sum not more than two hundred 
dollars, for one time only, and State aid may be continued if the district 
will increase the local school tax rate to fifty cents on the one hundred 
dollars. 

Before State aid will be recommended for a district under the two 
hundred dollar provision of the law, the State Superintendent must 
have satisfactory evidence that a majority of the trustees of the district 
and a majority of the patrons of the school are in favor of a fifty-cent 
local school tax and that the local conditions in the district make it 
impossible to vote such rate. 

The State Department of Education desires that every child in Texas 
shall enjoy the best possible educational opportunity, and that the rural 
schools shall be well organized, equipped, and administered for the benefit 
of the country children. There are a great many excellent rural schools 
in Texas, and the citizens who have provided these schools are to be 
congratulated for their good judgment and foresight and encouraged to 



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continue such effort. However, it is sorely regrettable that there are 
so many rural schools in the State which clo not come up to the standard 
as they should, for various reasons. It is the purpose of the State 
Department of Education to assist all these schools in every way pos- 
sible, and it stands ready and eager to lend every means at its com- 
mand to encourage and promote the country school interests of the Stat*. 












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GRADED LIST OF LIBRARY BOOKS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY 
READING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 

The numerals in parenthesis refer to grades for which books are 
especially adapted. With each title is indicated the names of the pub- 
lishers and the prices of the books approved by the State Department of 
Education. 

NURSERY RHYMES AND STORIES 

(2-3) Adams, Fables and Khymes 

American, 30c 
(1-2) Aesop's Fables 

Billinghurst. Merrill, 30c; Godolphin, Burt, 60c 
(1-2) Anderson, Fairy Tales 

Merrill, 30c; Newson, 25c; Band, 45c 
(1-2) Baker, First Book of Poetry 

American, 40c 
(1-2) Baldwin, Fairy Reader 

American, 35c 
(2-4) Baldwin, Gulliver's Travels 

American, 35c 
(1-2) Beebe, First Year "Nature Reader 

American, 35c 
(1-2) Blaisdell, Boy Blue and His Friends 

Little, 40c 
(1-2) Blaisdell, Child Life First Reader 

Macmillan, 25c _ 
(5-8) Candeze, The Adventures of Grillo 

Ginn, 45c 
(1-2) Coe and Christie, Story Hour Primer 

American, 30c 
(1-2) Coe and Christie, Story Hour Reader, Book One 

American, 30c 
(7-8) Coe. Heroes of Everyday Life 

Ginn, 40c 
(1-2) Eldridge, Child's Reader in Verse 

American, 25c 
(1-2) Foulke. Twilight Stories 

Silver, 36c" 
(1-2) Grover, Folklore, Primer 

Atkinson. 30c 
(1-2) Grover, Folklore, Book I 

Atkinson, 30c 
(1-2) Grover, Folklore, Book II 

Atkinson, 30c 
(1-2) Grover, Sunbonnet Babies 

Rand, 40c 



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(1-2) Graver, Overall Boys 

Rand, 45c 
(1-2) Haaren, Fairy Life Golden Rod Books 

iNTewson, 20c 
(1-3) Haliburton and Claxton, Grimm's Fairy Stories 

Johnson, 25c 
(1-2) Holbrook, Hiawatha Primer 

Rand, 40c 
(1-2) Lansing, Rhymes and Stories 

Ginn, 35c 
(2-3) McMurry, Fifty Famous Fables 

Johnson, 30c 
(1-2) Mickens and Robinson, Mother Goose 

Silver, 36c 
(1-2) Noyes and Guild, Sunshine Primer 

Ginn, 40c 
(1-2) O'Shea, Six Nursery Classics 

Heath, 20c 
(1-2) O'Shea, Old World Wonder Stories 

Heath, 20c 
(1-2) Potter, Tale of Benjamin Bunny 

Warne, 50c 
(1-2) Potter, Tale of Peter Rabbit 

Warne, 50c 
(1-2) Poulsson, Through the Farmyard Gate 

Lothrop, $1.25 
(1-2) Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk Stories 

Houghton, 40c 
(1-2) Serl, In Fableland 

Silver,' 36c 
(1-2) Stevenson, Chile? s Garden of Verses 

Rand, 50c 
(1-2) Welsh, Mother Goose 

Heath, 30c 
(1-2) Wiltse, Folklore Stories and Proverbs 

Ginn, 30c 
(1-2) Wells, The Jingle Book 

Macmillan. 50c 



BIBLE STOUTER 

(3-5) Baldwin, Old Stories of the Bast 

American, 45c 
(7-9) Baldwin, Old Testament Narratives 

American, 20c 
(3-6) Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress 

Newson, 25c; Scott. 30c 



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(3-5) Bunyan's Dream Story 

American, 35c 
(4-5) Endicott, Stories of the Bible 

Ed. Pub. Co., 60c 
(4_5) Foster, Story of the Bible 

Jacobs, $1.00 
(4-8) Gillie, The Story of Stories 

Maemillan, $1.25 
(3-6) G-uerber, Stories of the Chosen People 

American. 60c 
(3-4) Haaren, Stories Prom the Hebrew- 
Silver, 42c 
(4-5) Kelman, Stories from the Life of Christ 

Dutton, 50c 
(3-4) Moulton, Bible Stories for Children from Old Testament 

Maemillan. 50c 
(3-4) Moulton, Bible Stories for Children from New Testament 

Maemillan, 50c 
(3-4) Proudioot, Child's Christ Tales 

Flanagan. 75c 
(4_8) Tappan, The Christ Story 

Honshton, $1.50 



MYTHS AND LEGENDS 

(4-7) Baker, Stories of Old Greece and Pome 

Maemillan, 80c 
(3-4) Baldwin. Old Greek Stories 

American. 45c 
(4-6) Baldwin, Stories of the King 

American, 50c 
(3-4) Baldwin, The Golden Fleece; More Old Greek Stories 

American, 50c 
(4-6) Bradish, Old Norse Stories 

American, 45c 
(3-4) Brown. In the Days of the Giants; a Book of Norse Tales 

Houghton. 50c 
(4-8) Church, Stories of the Old World 

Ginn. 50c 
(4-8) Copeland, Life in the Greenwood 

Ginn, 35c 
(3-4) Foster and Cummings, Asgard Stories; Tales from Norse 
Mythology 

Silver, 36c' 
(4-5) Francilon, Gods and Heroe3 

Ginn. 40c 






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(4-6) Green, King Arthur and His Court 

Ginn, 50c 
(4-7) G-reen wood, Merrie England 

Ginn, 40c 
(3-4) Hall, Four Old Greeks 

Rand, 35c 
(5-6) Harding, Greek Gods, Heroes and Men 

Scott, 50c 
(5-6) Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls 

Houghton, 40c 
(5-6) Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales 

Houghton, 40c; Macmillan, 25c 
(2-3) Holbrook, Book of Nature Myths 

Houghton, 45c 
{3-4) Hyde, Favorite Greek Myths 

"Heath, 50c 
(4-6) Kingsley, The Heroes; or Fairy Tales for My Children 

Ginn, 30c 
(3-5) Kupfer, Stories of the Long Ago 

Heath, 75c 
(4-6) Lang, Blue Fairy Book 

Burt, $1.00 
(4-6) Lang, Red Fairv Book 

Burt, $1.00 
(4-6) Lang, Arabian Nights 

Longmans, $2.00; Ginn, 45c; Rand, 60c 
(4-6) Lansing, Fairy Tales (Open Road Library), 2 Vols. 

Ginn, each, 35c 
(4-7) Lansing, Tales of Old England 

Ginn, 35c 
(7-9) Litchfield, The Nine Worlds 

Ginn, 50c 
(6-8) Long, Old English Ballads 

Macmillan, 50c ; Heath, 50c 
(7-8) Mabie, Legends Every Child Should Know 

Southern Sc. Bk. Dep., 50c 
(4-7) Mabie, Stories of Norse Heroes 

Rand, 40c 
(2-3) McMurrv, Classic Stories for Little Ones 

Ed. Pub. Co., 35c 
(2-3) Oswell, Fairy Book 

Macmillan, 40c 
(3-4) Oswell, Stories Grandmother Told 

Macmillan, 40c 
(6-8) Perkins, Robin Hood Ballads 

Scribners, $1.50 
(2-4) Perrault, Tales- of Mother Goose 

Heath, 20c 






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4-5) Pratt, Legends of Norseland 

Ed. Pub. Co., 60c 
3-4) Price and Gilbert, Heroes of Myth 

Silver, 50c 
6-7) Pyle, Story of King Arthur and His Knights 

Scribners, $2.00 
'6-7) Pyle, Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 

Scribners, 50c 
-8) Eagazin, Siegfried, the Hero of the North, and Beowulf, the 
Hero of the Anglo-Saxons 

Putnam*?, $1.25 
-6) Eamee, Bimbi 

Ginn, 40c 
4-6) Euskin, King of the Golden Eiver 

Page, 50c; Houghton, 25c; Eand, 25c: Ginn, 25c; Heath, 25c 
4-6) Scudder, Book of Legends 

•Houghton, 50c 
3-4) Scudder, Book of Fables and Folk Stories 

Houghton, 45c 
4-6) Scudder, Book of Legends; Told Over Again 

Houghton. 25c 
'3-6) Shaw, Stories of the Ancient Greeks 

Ginn. 60c 
3-5) Skinner, Tales and Plays of Eobin Hood 

American, 56c 
2-4) Skinner, Merry Tales 

American, 48c 
2-3) Smythe, Old Time Stories Eetold 

American. 35c 
4-6) Stock, Fanciful Tales 

Scribners. 50c 
4-6) Stockton, Ting a Ling Tales 

Scribners, $1.00 
3-4) Tappan. Golden Goose and Other Fairy Tales 

Houghton, $1.00 
'5-7) Tappan. Old Ballads in Prose 

Houghton, 40c 
2-3)- Turpin, Classic Fables 

Merrill, 30c 
'6-7) Warren, King Arthur and His Knights 

Eand, 50c 

FAIRY TALES AND FOLKLORE STORIES 



Browne, Wonderful Chair and the Tales It Told 

Button, 35c ; Heath, 36c 
Calhoun. When Great Folks Were Little Folks 

MactuiHan, 40c 



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3-5) Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 

Macmillan, 75c ; Band, 30c 
7-8) Chapin, Wonder Tales from Wagner 

Harper, $1.25 
6-7) Clark, Arabian Nights 

American, 60c 
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Ed. Pub. Co., 40c; Band, 35c 
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Heath, 30c; Macmillan, 35c 
5-6) Defoe, Bobinson Crusoe 

Macmillan, 25c; Newson, 25c; Scott, 40c; Heath, 60c; Amer- 
ican, 35c 
'3-5) Grimm, German Household Stories 

Houghton, 40c 
'3-4) Grimm, Fairy Tales 

Macmillan, 25c 
4-5) Hale, Arabian Mghts 

Ginn, 65c: Band, 60c 
'2-3) Hawkes, Eskimo Land 

Ginn, 30c 
4-6) Holbrook, Bound the Year in Myth and Song 

American, 60c 
4-6) Kingsky, Water Babies 

Dutton, 50c; Band, 45c; Ginn, 35c; Heath, 50c 
4-6) Lee and Carey, Silesian Folk Tales 

American, 40c 
'5-6) Maitland, Heroes of Chivalry 

Silver, 50c 
'2-4) Pyle, Prose and Yerse for Children 

American, 40c 
3-4) Strong, All the Year Bound (4 Vols.) 

Ginn, each, 30c 
2-4) Wiltse, Hero Folk of Ancient Britain 

Ginn, 45c 
'4-8) Wyss, Swiss Family Bobinson 

Ginn, 50c 

PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE 



Atkinson, First Studies in Plant Life 

Silver, 60c 
Bartlett. Animals at Home 
American, 45c 
'2-3) Bass, Nature Study for Young Beaders 
Heath, 35c 
Bass, Plant Life 
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(2-3) Bass, Animal Life 

Heath, 40c 
(5-6) Beard, Curious Homes and Their Tenants 

Appleton, 65c 
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Silver, 48c 
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Pubt Sc. Pub. Co., 60c 
(3-6) Gould. Mother Nature's Children 

Ginn, 60c 
(2-3) Johonnot, Book of Cats and Dogs 

American, 17c 
(3-4) Johonnot, Friends in Feathers and Fur 

American, 30c 
(4-5) Kelley, Short Stories of Our Shy Neighbors 

American, 30c 
(4-9) Long. Ways of Wood Folk 

Ginn, 50c 
(4-5) Mix, Mighty Animals 

American, 40c 
(4-6) Monteith, Some Useful Animals and What They Do for Us 

American, 50c 
(5-7) Morley. Flowers and Their Friends 

Ginn, 50c 
(3-5) Noel, Buzz; The Life of a Honev Bee 

Holt, $1.00 
(4-6) Schwartz, Wilderness Babies 

Little, $1.30 
(3-6) Stickney, Bird World 

Ginn. 60c 
(3-5) Stickney, The Earth and Sky 

Book One, 30c 

Book Two, 30c 

Book Three, 35c, Ginn 
(3-5) Stokes, Ten Common Trees 

American, 40e 
v (4-7) Torelle, Plant and Animal Children; How They Grow 

Heath, 60c 
(2-4) Walker. Our Birds and Their Nestlings 

American, 60c 
(5-8) Wood, Animals, Their Belation and Use to Man 

Ginn, 60c 
(5-7) Wright, Birds and Beasts 

Macmillan, 50c 
(3-4) Wright, Earth and Sky 

Macmillan, 30c 
(5-7) Wright, Four-footed Americans and Their Kin 

Macmillan, 50e 



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(8-9) Allen, The Kentucky Cardinal 

Macmillan, 50c 
(4-6) Bailey, Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts 

World Book Company, 35c 
(7-8) Bostock, Training of Wild Animals 

Century, $1.00 
(7-8) Brown, Bab and His Friends 

Heath, 20c 
(3-5) Brown, Alice and Tom 

Heath, 40c 
(4-5) Carter, Bear Stories Betold from St. Nicholas 

Century, 65c 
(3-4) Carter, Cat Stories Betold from St. Nicholas 

Century, 65c 
(4-5) Carter, Lion and Tiger Stories from St. Nicholas 

Century, 65c 
(4-5) Carter, , Stories of Brave Dogs 

Century, 65c 
(2-3) Craik, So Fat and Mew Mew 

Heath, N 20c 
(3-5) Eddy, Friends and Helpers 

Ginn, 60c 
(5-7) George, True Tales of Birds and Beasts 

Heath, 40c 
(6-8) Hamerton, Chapters on Animals 

Heath, 25c 
(6-8) Kipling, Jungle Book 

Century, $1.50 
(6-7) Long, Secrets of the Woods 

Ginn, 50e 
(4-7) Long, Little Brother to the Bear 

Ginn, 50c 
(4-9) Long, Wood Folk at School 

Ginn, 50c 
(4-6) Roberts, Children of the Wild 

Macmillan, $1.35 
(7-8) Roberts, Kindred of the Wild 

Grossett, 75c 
(5-6) Sanders, Beautiful Joe 

Scribners, 50c 
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Scribners, 50c 
(5-7) Seton, Two Little Savages 

Grosset, 50c 
(6-7) Seton. Lobo, Bag, and Vixen 

Scribners, 50c 
(6-7) Sewell, Black Beauty 

Crowell, 60c; Newson, 30c ; Band, 40c 






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(3-8) Smith, Four-footed Friends 

Ginn, 50c 
(1-2) Smythe, Reynard the Fox 

American. 30c 
(3-4) Stanley, Animal Folk Tales 

American. 52c 



NATURE AND SCTENCE 

(2-4) Abbott, A Boy on a Farm 

American, 45c 
(3-4) Andrews, Stories Mother Nature Told to Her Children 

Ginn, 50c 
(6-8) Ball, Starland 

Ginn, 50e 
(6-8) Dawson, The Boys and Girls of Garden City 

Ginn, 75c 
(6-7) Dodge, Reader in Physical Geography 

Longman, 75c 
(6-7) Eckstorm. The Bird Book 

Heath, 72c 
(7-8) Fairbanks, Stories of the Rocks and Minerals 

Ed. Pub. Co.. 60c 
(5-7) Ghosh. The Wonders of the Jungle 

Heath, 48c 
(7-8) Green, Coal and the Coal Mines 

Houghton, 75c 
(4-8) Gulick. Hygiene Series 

Bk. 1, 40c; Bk. 2. 40c: Bk. 3, 50c; Bk. 4, 50c: Bk. 5, 50c 
Ginn 
(6-8) Fonrnier d'Albe. Wonders of Physical Science 

Macmillan, 50c 
(4-6) Hardy, Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes 

Ginn, 40c 
(7-8) Harrington, About the Weather 

Appleton, 65c 
(7-8) Hodge, Nature Study and Life for Teachers 

Ginn. $1.50 
(5-7) Hooker, Child's Book of Nature 

American, $1.00 
(7-8) Holden. Real Things in Nature 

Macmillan, 54c 
(3-4) Holden, Earth and Sky 

Appleton, 28c 
(5-8) Ingersoll, Book of the Ocean 

Century, $1.50 
(3-6) Morlev, Butterflies and Bees 

Ginn, 60c 






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(3-4) O'Shea and Kellogg, Health Habits 

Macmillan, 75c 
(3-4) Payne, Geographical Nature Studies 

American, 35c 
(3-5) Patri, The White Patch 

American, 40c 
(3-6) Stickney and Hoffman, Bird World 

Ginn, 60c 
Wright, Seaside and Wayside : 
(2-3) Book I, 28c 
(3-4) Book II, 36c 
(4-5) Book III, 48c 
(5-6) Book IV, 60c, Heath 



GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL 

(5-8) Allen, Geographical and Industrial Beaders ' 

United States, 65c ; Europe, 80c ; Asia, 90c, Ginn. 
(3-4) Andrews, Seven Little Sisters 

Ginn, 50c 
(3-4) Andrews, Each and All 

Ginn, 50c 
(4-6) Ayrton, Child Life in Japan 

Heath, 20c 
(5-7) Blaich. Three Industrial Nations (United States, England, and 
Germany) 

American, 64c 
(5-7) Burk. Barbara's Philippine Journey 

World Book Co., 60c 
Carroll, Around the World 
(1-2) Vol. 1, 36c 
(2-3) Vol: 2, 45c 
(3-4) Vol. 3, 48c 
(4-5) Vol. 4, 54c, Silver 

(5-8) Carpenter, Geographical Beaders; Africa, Asia, Australia, North 
America, South America, each 60c; Europe, 70c, American 
(5-7) Carpenter, ' Industrial Beaders 

How the World Is Fed 

How the World Is Clothed 

How the World Is Housed, American, each, 60c 
(3-5) Cady and Dewey, Stories from Great Artists 

Macmillan, 35c 
(3-6) Chamberlain, Home and World Series 

How We Are Fed 

How We Travel 

How We Are Clothed, Macmillan, each, 40c 
(4-6) Chamberlain, Continents and Their Peoples: North America, 
South America, Australia, Africa, Asia. Europe 

Macmillan, each, 55c 






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(2-3) Chance, Little Folks of Many Lands 

Ginn, 45c 
(7-9) Dana, Two Years Before the Mast 

Houghton, 70c; Macmillan, 25c; Scott, 40c 
(4-7) Dole, Spryri's Heide 

Ginn, 40c 
(5-7) Dn Chaillu, Wild Life Under the Equator 

Harper, $1.25 
(5-7) Du Chailhi, Country of the Dwarfs 

Harper, $1.25 
(2-3) Dutton, In Field and Pasture 

American, 35c 
(1-2) Dutton, Fishing and Hunting 

American, 30c 
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American, 40c 
(7-8) Eggleston, Stories of American Life and Adventure 

American, 50c 
(5-6) George, Little Journeys to Alaska and Canada 

Flanagan, 50c 
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Flanagan, 50c 
(3-4) Headland, Our Little Chinese Cousin 

Page, 60c 
(6-8) Horton, The Frozen North 

Heath, 50c 
(6-7) Johnson, The World's Discoverers; the Story of Bold Voyages 
by Brave Navigators During a 1000 Years 

Little, $1.35 
(5-7) Kingsley, Story of Lewis and Clark 

American, 25c 
(4-6) Kirhv, Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard 

Ed. Pub. Co., 40c 
(4-6) Kirhv, Wonders of the World 

Nelson, $1.50 
(6-7) Knapp, Story of the Philippines 

Silver, 60c 
(6-8) Knox, Boy Travelers in Ceylon and Tndia 

Harper^ $2.00 
(^-S) Knox, Boy Travelers in Great Britain and Ireland 

Harper, $2.00 
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Harper, $2,00 
(5-6) Koch. Little Journeys in Our Western Wonderland 

Flanagan. 50c 
(6-8) Lane, Industries of Today 

Ginn, 25c 



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(6-8) Lane, Northern Europe 

Ginn, 25e 
(6-8) Lane, Under Sunny Skies 

Ginn, 25c 
(6-8) Lane, Toward the Rising Sun 

Ginn, 25c 
(5-8) Lawler, Columbus and Magellan 

Ginn, 40c 
(6-8) Lummis, Some Strange Corners of Our Country 

Century, $1.50 
(3-4) Mansfield, Our Little Dutch Cousin 

Page, 60c 
(6-7) McDonald, Gerda in Sweden 

Little, 50c 
(4-5) McClintock, The Philippines 

American, 40c 
(8-9) Parkman, Oregon Trail 

• Macmillan, 25c; Newson, 40c; Scott, 40c 
(3-4) Pearv, Children of the Arctic 

Stokes, $1.30 
(3-4) Pearv. Snow Baby 

Stokes, $1.50 
(4-5) Pearv. Snowland Folks 

Stokes, $1.20 
(3-4) Roulet, Our Little Spanish Cousin 

Page, 60c 
(4-5) Scandlin, Hans, the Eskimo 

Silver, 42c 
(4-6) Schwatka, Children of the Cold 

Ed. Pub. Co.. $1.25 
(3-4) Schwartz, Five Little Strangers and How They Came to Live 
in America 
American, 30c 
(3-4) Shaw, Big People and Little People of Other Lands 

American, 30c 
(3-4) Shaw. Discoverers and Explorers 

American, 35c 
(7-8) Slocum, Around the World in the Sloop Spray 

Scribners, 50c 
(2-3) Smith, Eskimo Stories 

Panel, 4 0c 
(7-8) Stevenson, Inland Vovages and Travels with Donkey 

Scott, 35c; Macmillan, 25c 
(4_6) Wade, Our Little Japanese Cousin 

Page, 60c 
(4-6) Wade, Our Little Norwegian Cousin 

Page, 60c 
(4-6) Wade, Our Little Swiss Cousin 
Page, 60c 






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(4-7) Winslow, Geographical Readers 

Book I, The Earth and Its People 

Book II, The United States 

Book III, Our American Neighbors 

Book IV, Europe 

Book V, Distant Countries, Heath, 50c 
'4-9) Youths' Companion, Strange Lands Near Home 

Ginn, 25c 
Youths' Companion, The Wide World 

Ginn, 25c 









BIOGRAPHY 

4-6) Abbott, Daniel Boone 

Dodd, $1.25 
4-6) Abbott, David Crockett 

Dodd, $1.25 
'2-4) Baldwin, Fifty Famous People 

American, 35c 
4-6) Baldwin, Four Great Americans 

American, 50c 
'5-6) Beebe, Four American Naval Heroes 

American, 50c 
5-7) Burton, Four American Patriots 

American, 50c 
'5-7) Burton, Story of Lafayette 

American, 25c 
4-6) Catherwood, Heroes of the Middle West 

Ginn, 50c 
'6-8) Cody, Four American Poets 

American, 50c 
'5-6) Dale, Heroes and Great Hearts 

Heath, 60c 
3-5) Eggleston, Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans 

American, 40c 
7-8) Farmer. Boys' Book of Famous Rulers 

Crowell, 75c 
7-8) Farmer, Girls' Book of Famous Queens 

Crowell, 75c 
7-8) Fiske, Irving. Washington and His Country 

Ginn. 60c 
4-fi) Oilman, Biography of Robert E. Lee 

Macmillan, 50c 
'6-9) Horton, A Group of Famous Women 

Heath, 50c 
4-6) Home and Scoby, Stories of Great Artists 

American. 40c 
4-6) Home and Scoby, Stories of Great Musicians 

American. 40c 






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Holland, William Penn 

Macmillan, 50c 
-1-5) Kingsley, Four American Explorers 

American, 40c 
Lodge and Roosevelt, Hero Stories of American History 

Century, $1.50 
7-8) Mabie, Heroes Every Child Should Know 

Doubleday, 90c 
'5-7) Mowry, American Pioneers 

Silver, 65c 
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Silver, 65c 
4-5) MeMurry, Pioneers on Land and Sea 

Macmillan, 40c 
5-8) Parton, Captains of Industry 

Houghton, $1.50 
5-7) Perry, Four American Inventors 

American, 50c 
4-5) Perry, Four American Pioneers 

American, 40c 
4-5) Pratt, De Soto. Marquette, and La Salle 

Ed. Pub. Co., 50c 
Seawell, Twelve Naval Captains 

Scribners, 50c 
■7) Sprague, David Crockett 

Macmillan, 50c 
Whitehead, Two Great Southerners: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson 
Davis 

American, 60c 
'6-8) Williams, Some Successful Americans 

Ginn, 50c 
4-6) Williamson, Life of General T. J. Jackson 

Johnson 
Wright, Children's Stories of Great Scientists 

Scribners, $1.50 



HISTORY ANCIENT AND MODERN 

L-5) Andrews, Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago 
Till Nov 
Ginn, 50c 
'3-5) Baldwin, Fifty Famous Stories Retold 

American, 35c 
4-6) Baldwin, American Book of Golden Deeds 
American, 50c 
Baldwin, Thirty More Famous Stories Retold 

American, 50c 
Baldwin, Conquest of the Old Northwest 
American, 50c 






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[6-8) Baldwin, Discovery of the Old Northwest 

American, 60c 
'3-4) Bass, Stories of Pioneer Life 

Heath, 40c 
4-6) Beven, Stories from British History 

Little, 50c 
6-7) Blaisdell, Story from English History 

Ginn, 40c 
'5-7) Blaisdell, Hero Stories from American History 

Ginn, 60c 
[5-7) Brady, Border Fights and Fighters 

Southern Sc. Bk. Dep., 50c 
[6-8) Brooks, Century Book for Young Americans 

Southern Sc. Bk. Dep., 50c 
6-7) Coffin, Boys of "76 

Harper, $2.00 
[8-9) Coolidge, United States a World Power 

Macmillan. 50c 
[5-6) Dalkeith, Stories from Roman History 

Dutton, 50c 
[5-6) Dalkeith, Stories from French History 

Dutton, 50c 
6-8) Dickens, Child's History of England 

Crowell, 60c 
3-4) Dickson, From the Old World to the New 

Macmillan, 50c 
5-6) Dickson, Hundred Years of Warfare 

Macmillan, 50c 
[3-4) Dodge, Stories of American History 

Lothrop, 30c 
7-8) Draper. The Rescue of Cuba 

Silver, $1.00 
3-5) Eggleston, Story of American Life and Adventure 

American, 50c 
4-5) Eggleston, First Book of American History 

American. 60c 
[4-6) Gordy, American Leaders and Heroes 

Scribners, 60c 
[4-6) Gordy. American Beginnings in Europe 

Scribners, 75c 
6-7) Gordy. Colonial Days 

Scribners, 50c 
[5-6) Gordy. Stories of American Explorers 

Scribner, 50c 
'5-6) Guerber, Stories of the Thirteen Colonies 

American. 60c 
'5-6) Guerber, Story of the Great Republic 

American. 60r- 



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'6-8) Guerber, Story of the English 

American, 60c 
'6-7) Guerber, Story of the Greeks 

American, 60c 
6-7) Guerber, Story of the Romans 

American, 60c 
'4-6) Haaren, Famous Men of Greece 

Univ. Pub. Co., 50c 
-1-6) Haaren, Famous Men of Rome 

Univ. Pub. Co., 50c 
5-7) Haaren, Famous Men of the Middle Ages 

Univ. Pub. Co., 50c 
6-8) Hart, How Our Grandfathers Lived 

Macmillan, 60c 
6-8) Hart, Camps and Firesides of the American Revolution 

Macmillan, 50c 
'3-4) Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair 

Houghton, 40c 
'5-6) Hazard and Dutton, Indians and Pioneers 

Silver, 60c 
'5-6) Hodgdon, Discoverers, Explorers, and Colonists 

Heath, 65c 
7-9) Hodgdon, The National Period 

Heath, 65c 
'3-4) Johonnot, Grandfather's Stories 

American, 27c 
'5-6) Johonnot, Stories of Our Country 

American, 40c 
7-8) Johonnot, Ten Great Events in History 

American, 54c 
'6-7) King, De Soto and His Men in Florida 

Macmillan, 50c 
4-6) McMurry, Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains 

Macmillan, 40c 
4-7) McMurry, Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley 

Pub. Sc. Pub. Co., 50c 
'6-7) Mowry and Blanche, American Pioneers 

Silver, 65c 
(4-6) Nicholson, Story of Dixie 

American, 62c 
4-6) Mda, Dawn of American Historv in Europe 

Macmillan, 60c 
3-5) Otis, Philip of Texas 

American, 35c 
'5-6) Price, "Wandering Heroes 

Silver, 50c 
'3-4) Pratt, Stories of Colonial Cbildren 

Ed. Pub. Co., 60c 



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Pratt. America's Story for America's Children 

Book I, Beginner's Book 

Book II, Discoverers and Explorers 

Book III, The Early Colonies 

Book IV, The Later Colonial Period 

Book V, The Foundations of the Republic, Heath, each, 40c 
Scott, How the Flag Became Old Glory 

Macmillan, 50c 
Ske, Stories from English History 

Dutton, 50c 
Stone and Pickett, Days and Deeds One Hundred Years Ago 

Heath, 35c 
Tappan, England's Story 

Houghton, 85c 
Tappan, Our Country's Story 

Houghton, 65c 
Tappan, American History Stories 

Houghton, 55c 
Tomlinson, Boys of the Revolution 

Silver, 48c 
Warren, Stories from English History 

Heath, 72c 
Watson, Boston Tea Party 

Lathrop, 30c 
Washington, Farewell Address 

Scott, 25c; Ginn, 25c 
Wright, Children's Story of American History 

Scribners, 50c 

INDIAN LIFE AND HTSTORY 

Brooks, Stories of the Red Children 

Ed. Pub. Co., 40c 
Brown, Tales of the Red Children 

Appleton, $1.00 
Bemister, Thirty Indian Legends 

Macmillan, 40c 
Chandler, In the Reign of the Coyote; Folklore from the Pacific 
Coast 

Ginn, 40c 
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans 

Macmillan, 25c; Scott, 40c; Rand, 60c; Heath. 50c; Amer- 
ican, 35c 
Curtis. Indian Days of the Long Ago 

World Book Co., 80c 
Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters 

World Book Co., 80c 
Fox. Indian Primer 

American, 35c 



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7-8) Grinnell, Story of the Indians 

Appleton, $1.35 
Howard, Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known 

Century, $1.50 
Hnsted, Stories of Indian Chieftains 

Pub. Sc. Pub. Co., 40c 
Husted, Stories of Indian Children 

Pub. Sc. Pub. Co., 40c 
■6) Jenks, Childbood of Jishib, the Ojibway 

Atkinson, 60c 
Judd, Wigwam Stories 

Ginn, 75c 
Moran, Kwahu, the Hopi Indian Boy 

American, 50c 
■4) Pratt, Legends of the "Red Children 

American, 30c 
6-5) Sneclden, Docas, the Indian Boy 

Heath, 40c 
'6-7) Starr, American Indians 

Heath, 48c 
St. Nicholas, Indian Stories 

Century, 65c 
Wiley, Mewanee: the Little Indian Boy 

Silver, 30c 
Wilson, Myths of the Ped Children 

Ginn, 45c 
Whipple, The Story of the Liberty Bell 

Altemus, 50c 
Whitney and Perry, Four American Indians 

American, 50c 
'5-8) Zitkala-Sa, Old Indian Legends 

Ginn, 50c 



GENERAL LITERATURE 

'5-7") Carter, The Bov Scouts in the Pockies 
Burt, $1.35 " 
Dowd, Polly of the Lady Gay Cottage 
Houghton, $1.00 
■8) Eaffleton, Writers and Writings of Texas 

Tex. Sc. Bk. Dep., $1.50 
'-9) Emerson, American Scholar 
Scott, 35c 
Emerson, Representative Men 

Maemillan. 25c 
Hale. Man Without a Country 

Ginn. 30c 
Lamb, Tales from Shapespeare 
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Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal 

Macmillan, 25c; Newson, 25c; Scott, 25c 
Page, Two Little Confederates 

Scribners, $1.35 
Payne, Southern Literary Readings 

Rand, 75c 
Porter, Pollyanna 

Page, $1.25 
Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 

Century, $1.00 
Rice, Lovey Marv 

Century, $1.00 
Shakespeare, Macbeth 

Macmillan, 25c; Scott, 25c; Ginn, 30c: Heath. 25c; Amer- 
can, 20c 
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 

Scott, 25c; Ginn, 30c; Heath, 25c; American, 20c 
Swift, Gulliver's Travels 

Macmillan. 25c; Ginn, 40c; Heath, 36c; American, 35c 
Thayer, Ethics of Success 

Silver, 45c 
Wheeler. The Bov with the U. S. Life Savers 

Lothrop, $1.50 
Whittier, Snow Bound 

Macmillan, 25c; Scott, 25c 
Wiggins, Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm 

Grossett, 75c 

BOOKS RELATING TO TEXAS HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY 

Abbott, Chevalier La Salle 

Dodd, $1.00 
Bolton and Barker, With the Makers of Texas History 

American. 60c 
Daffan, Texas Hero Stories 

Sanborn, 50c 
Davis. Under Six Flags 

Ginn, 50c 
Ellis, Life of David Crockett 

Winston, 75c 
Elliott, Life of Sam Houston 

Small, 50c 
Fulmore, History and Geography of Texa's as Told in County 
Names 

Z. T. Fulmore, Austin, Tex., $1.50 
Littlejohn, Texas History Stories 

Johnson, 50c 
Littlejohn, Geography of Texas ; Supplement to World Geog- 
raphies 

Macmillan, 40c 



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(5-7) Sirnonds, Geography of Texas 
Ginn, 90c 

NATURE STUDY AND AGRICULTURE FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS 

Burkett and Foe, Cotton 

Doubleday, $2.00 
Corbett, Gardening, Farming 

Ginn, $2.00 
Davenport, Domesticated Plants and Animals 

Ginn, $1.25 
Jackman, Nature Study for Grammar Grades 

Macmillan, $1.00 ' 
Lange, Handbook of Nature Study 

Macmillan, $1.00 
Powell, Co-operation in Agriculture 

Macmillan, $1.50 
Reed, Flower Guide (Wild Flowers East of the Rockies) 

Doubleday, $1.00 
Weed and Riley, Crop Production 

Heath, 80c 
Weed, Farm Friends and Farm Foes 

Heath, $1.00 
Whitson and Walster, Soils and Soil Fertility 

Webb, $1.25 
Wilson, Teachers' Manual in Nature Study 

Macmillan, 90c 
Wing, Milk and Its Products 

Macmillan, $1.50 

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Bailey, Principles of Fruit Growing 

Macmillan, $1.50 
Bailey. The Country Life Movement of America 

Macmillan, 50c 
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Lyons and Carnahan, 90c 
Ellis and Kyle, Fundamentals of Farming and Farm Life 

Scribners, $1.25 
Harper, Animal Husbandry for Schools 

Macmillan, $1.40 
Hunt and Burkett, Soils and Crops 

Orange Judd- $1.50 
Prichard and Tarkington, Stories of Thrift for Young Americans 

Scribners, 60c 

DICTIONARIES 

(4-6) Webster's Shorter- School Dictionary, for desk purposes 

American, 60c 
(6-9) Webster's Elementary- School Dictionary, for desk purposes 

American, 90c 
Webster's Secondary-School Dictionary, for library purposes 

American, $1.50 







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LIST OF APPROVED HEATING AND VENTILATING SYSTEMS 
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

The following school room heating and ventilating systems have heen 
approved by the State Department of Education as meeting the require- 
ments of the Texas State Schoolhouse Building Law: 

SMITH-MYERS HERO SCHOOL ROOM HEATER 



Number 


Diameter of 
Fire-pot 


Price 


F. O. B. 


30 

35 


18 inches 
20 inches 


$50 00 
55 00 


Houston, Texas. 
Houston, Texas. 



Sold by C. H. Myers & Co., Houston, Texas 

NATIONAL ROOM AIR HEATER, STYLE "A" 





Diameter of 
Fire-pot 


Price for 


FOB 


Number 


Wood 


Coal 


Wood and 
Coal 




16-28 

18-38 

20-32 


16 inches 
18 inches 
20 inches 


$56 25 
64 00 

70 75 


$57 00 
65 00 
72 00 


$57 75 
66 00 
73 25 


Texas common points 
Texas common points 
Texas common points 



If all-cast body is desired add $3.00 for No. 16-28; $3.25 for No. 
18-38; and $3.50 "for No. 20-32, 

Sold by the Excelsior Stove and Manufacturing Co.. Quincy, 111. 
J. D. Gee, State Representative, Dallas, Texas 

THE GROSSIUS VENTILATING SCHOOL ROOM HEATER 

(For wood only.) 



Number 


Diameter of 
Fire-pot 


Price 


F. 0. B. 


22 

222.. 


20 inches 
20 inches 


$55 00 
60 00 


Texas common points 
Texas common points 



Sold by the Grossius Furnace Co. 
R. E. Bryan, State Agent, Tyler, Texas 

STANDARD CLEAN AIR HEATING SYSTEM 



Number 


Diameter of 
Fire-pot 


Price 


F. O. B. 


532 

535 


16 inches 
18 inches 


$62 95 
86 75 


Houston, Texas 
Houston, Texas 



Sold bv Union School Furnishing Co., Houston, Texas 



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TEXARBOMA SCHOOL ROOM HEATER, STYLE "A" 



Number 


Diameter of 
Fire-pot 


Price 


F. 0. B. 


516.. 


18 inches 


$58 50 









Sold by C. A. Bryant Co., Dallas, Texas 

SMITH SANITARY CONVECTION HEATER, STYLE 15 



Number 


Diameter of 
Fire-pot 


Price 


F. O. B. 


18 


18 inches 
20 inches 


$65 00 
82 50 


Delivered any Texas point 
Delivered any Texas point 


20 



Sold by Smith System Heating Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 
Chambers & Hicks, State Agents, Waco, Texas 

WATERBURY HEATING AND VENTILATING SYSTEM, STYLE "B" 



Number 


Diameter of 
Fire-pot 


Price 


F. O. B. 


is ; 


17 1-2 inches 
19 1-2 inches 
21 1-2 inches 


$ 70 00 
107 50 
117 50 


Minneapolis, Minn. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 


21....: 

23 





Sold by Waterman Waterbury Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 
E. C. Smith & Co., State Agents, Dallas, Texas 

INFORMATION CONCERNING THE INSTALLATION OF 

HEATERS 

All heating and ventilating systems approved by the State Department 
of Education are to be installed with flues properly constructed of brick 
or stone from the ground up to a point above the comb of the main build- 
ing. Flues should be built according to the dimensions given elsewhere 
in this bulletin under "Heating and Ventilation,'' and should be located 
so that the fresh air may be conveniently .admitted through the side wall 
above the floor line. 

Although not a requirement at this time, it is recommended that the 
jacket or shield around the stove be provided with trench or baffle plates, 
or some similar device, to permit or prevent, at option, the recirculation 
of the air inside the room. 



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EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS 

In order to furnish to the public intelligent information as to the 
effect and results of the million dollar appropriation for country schools, 
the following extracts from a few of the numerous letters received at 
the State Department of Education from county superintendents in 
different sections of the State are herewith submitted : 

ANGELINA COUNTY 

It has proved a great incentive to the patrons in meeting the require- 
ments so that they may attain as high a standard as possible. 

J. W. Dunn, Jr., 
County Superintendent. 

ARCHER COUNTY 

State aid has done more to awaken the school spirit than any legis- 
lation of recent years. 

J. S. Melugin, 
Ex Officio County Superintendent. 



BEXAR COUNTY 

The people have been greatly stirred by the demands of the State, 
and there is a general tendency to put buildings and equipment in 
better condition. The plainest evidence of this is the activity of the 
people in voting more school taxes and bonds. 

P. F. Stewart, 
County Superintendent. 

BOWIE county 

State aid has caused the people to demand good school buildings, well 
equipped and better teachers. If continued, it will do much to make 
the rural schools of Texas equal to those of any other State. 

J. B. Lytal, 
County Superintendent, 

BROWN COUNTY 

State aid has put our schools on a surer foundation. It has enabled 
the progressive to have their dreams come true — dreams of standardiz- 
ing the rural schools. 

Mrs. E. L. Walker, 
County Superintendent. 

CHEROKEE COUNTY 

State aid has done more toward building up an efficient system of 
rural schools than any piece of constructive school legislation that has 




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ever been enacted. I believe the strongest feature of the law is the 
provision setting forth the requirements that must be met in order to 
become eligible for aid. 

Ed Singletary, 
County Superintendent. 

COLEMAN COUNTY 

State aid has had the most beneficial and wholesome effect on the 
rural schools of this county of any proposition ever undertaken. 

J. C. Griffin, 
County Superintendent, 



COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY 

State aid has been a great benefit to the schools of this county. Its 
good cannot hardly be overestimated. 

A. C. Nicholson, 
Ex-Officio County Superintendent. 

COMANCHE COUNTY 

State aid has wonderfully inspired our people. Fifty of the seventy- 
one rural schools in my county will ask for aid the coming term. 

W. D. Jenkins, 
County Superintendent. 

DENTON COUNTY 

The million dollar appropriation makes possible good physical and 
sanitary conditions; promotes self-help on the part of communities;, 
improves the living conditions of the schools and strikes at the very 
root of the fundamental question of community life; affords a means 
of sane and efficient co-operation for school authorities; and affords 
opportunity, while providing the physical conditions for communities 
and social betterment. 

L. H. Edwards, 
County Superintendent. 

DELTA COUNTY 

State aid has had the most wholesome effect upon our rural schools. 
The effect is county-wide. I think the policy sound and wise. 

W. E. Chancellor, 
County Superintendent. 

FANNIN COUNTY 

The funds received have been worth ten times the amount in stimu- 
lation for better buildings, better equipment, better teachers, and more 
efficient work. The voting of the 50-eent tax has wrought a real and 
genuine educational awakening. 

E. M. Parker, 
County Superintendent. 



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FISHER COUNTY 



It has been a great stimulus to our schools. Other schools are pre- 
paring themselves to apply for State aid. 

W. C. Martin. 
County Superintendent. 



HARRIS COUNTY 

The advantage derived and the impulse given the schools by this aid 
are the greatest step educationally that Harris County has made. 

J. W. Lyle, 
County Superintendent. 

HASKELL COUNTY' 

People have been stimulated to active school work as never before. 
More good has come to the schools from this aid than from all other 
legislation during the past few years. 

T. C. Williams, 
County Superintendent. 

HOPKINS COUNTY r 

State aid has done more for the educational interests in the rural 
school communities than any other one step ever taken. 

Jno. Hurley, 
County Superintendent. 

HOUSTON COUNTY 

The granting of State aid is one of the most progressive steps ever 
made in the history of the State for the improvement of the very ground 
work of the educational system. It has given an impetus to school 
work in my county that could have been brought about by no other means. 

j v isr. snell, 

County Superintendent. 

JASPER COUNTY 

State aid has been of untold worth to the schools of Jasper Countv. 
There are several strictly modern schools as a direct result of State aid. 

B. T. Withers. 
County Superintendent. 

JONES county 

I consider the million dollar net the greatest single school law ever 
enacted. It has done more to put new life into the schools under my 
supervision than any one thing heretofore. 

C. L. Prichard, 
County Superintendent. 







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LAMAR COUNTY 



State aid has been a great stimulus toward encouraging people to 
levy adequate local maintenance taxes, to better equip,, ventilate, and 
heat their school buildings, and to secure more efficient teachers. 

W. H. Snow, 
County Superintendent. 



LAMPASAS COUNTY 

I think it good. It inspires effort, encourages school agitation, and 
leads to proper investigation as to what others are doing. 

J. Tom Higgins, 
Ex Officio County Superintendent. 

LIMESTONE COUNTY 

The million dollar aid has served as a great stimulus to the school 
interests. Our people speak in the highest praise of this effort to help 
the rural schools. 

J. E, Atkins, 
County Superintendent. 

MATAGORDA COUNTY 

It has been of inestimable value to the schools aided. The question 
of State aid has been the most important and meritorious step that has 
ever been taken for the advancement of the rural schools. 

W. G. Gray, 
County Superintendent. 

m'oulloch county 

State aid has provided three things : iissistance for schools lacking 
sufficient funds; standards of efficiency in teaching and in equipment; 
and a more intelligent discussion of education throughout the county. 

E. L. White, 
County Superintendent. 

NACOGDOCHES COUNTY 

The aid received has been more helpful in giving the rural schools 
encouragement and assistance than any other one thing. 

John B. Stripling, 
County Superintendent. 

rusk county 

It has created more enthusiasm and school interest than all laws of 
the past. Tf these appropriations are made permanent, it means better 
and better rural schools. 

J. T. Watson. 
County Superintendent. 



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SAN AUGUSTINE COUNTY 

The effect of the aid has been tenfold. It has been the means of 
awakening a better interest in school affairs. 1 think the policy sound 
and the best thing yet offered for the material advancement of our 
rural schools. 

Miss Lillie Hazle, 
Comity Superintendent. 

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SMITH COUNTY 

At first we thought we would not like it, but we find it arouses our 
people as nothing else ever did. Hereafter we will build our school- 
houses with a view more to utility than show. This aid is given where 
it is needed and in a way that it cannot be wasted. 

A. W. Orr, 
County Superintendent. 

TARRANT COUNTY 

Under the million dollar appropriation, twenty-one districts received 
aid. It has been a wonderful stimulus to the schools, and every one 
of the twenty-one districts is now well equipped. 

G. T. BLUD WORTH, 

County Superintendent. 

TRINITY COUNTY 

State. aid has done more to create an interest in the building of high 
schools, and in effecting consolidations, than any other act of the Leg- 
islature. 

W. B. Mills. 
County Superintendent. 

TYLER COUNTY 

The million dollar appropriation has been worth a great deal to the 
schools of this county. The financial assistance has been appreciated, 
but the interest created in education has been worth more. 

Grover C. Lowe, 
County Superintendent. 

VAN ZANDT COUNTY 

As a result of State aid thirty-six districts have voted a 50-cent tax : 
twenty-seven districts have voted bond issues ; twelve new buildings have 
been erected ; and two consolidations have been made. 

Gr. D. Staton, 
County Superintendent. 



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